Universität Wien

090122 UE Thinking, perceiving, dreaming in Byzantinum (2016W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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max. 10 participants
Language: English

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MO wtl von 12.12.2016 13.00-16.00 Ort: Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3

  • Saturday 08.10. 09:00 - 16:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 12.11. 10:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 19.11. 10:45 - 14:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 10.12. 10:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Milton Anastos worked for many years on a project entitled ‘The Byzantine mind.’ What he was concerned with was the content: what Byzantines knew, what they thought about. Recently it has become more possible to consider how they knew, thought, and perceived. Work on the senses has begun recently with an interest in visuality, and work on the emotions, foreshadowed forty years ago by Henry Maguire’s work on sorrow. Various projects have attempted to bring together changes in cognitive science and more recent developments in the humanities, and the time is ripe for application to Byzantine Studies. This lecture course/seminar will make use of work in classics, history, anthropology, psychology, and art history to build a model of how these processes happened and were thought of in Byzantium.

1. Byzantine theories of perception and cognition
2. Emotion: what is it?
3. Representing emotion in art and literature
4. Are there Byzantine emotions, passions, imaginings?
5. The senses: five or more?
6. How did the Byzantines see: theories of visuality
7. Sound and scent in Byzantium
8. Taste and touch in Byzantium
9. Dreaming: the theory
10. Dream narrative and images
11. Memory, thought and perception
12. The Byzantine mind

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