Bachelor
2024/2025
Research Seminar 'History of Byzantine Literature'
Type:
Compulsory course (Classical Studies)
Area of studies:
Philology
Delivered by:
Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
4 year, 1-3 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Sergey A. Ivanov
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The study of the discipline research seminar History of Byzantine literature is based on the following disciplines: - Introduction to Byzantine studies; - Ancient Greek language; - NIS “The Image of Byzantium through the Ages.” To master the academic discipline, students must have the following knowledge and competencies: - Know the ancient Greek language in the scope of a one-year intensive course; - Know and have experience in creating independent research (course work) that is not interdisciplinary in nature; - Know the methods of primary analysis of literary text; - Know how to search for scientific information; - Possess research skills. The basic provisions of the discipline should be used in the future when studying the following disciplines: - Preparation of a bachelor's final qualifying thesis; - Preparation of bachelor's coursework.Освоение дисциплины доступно только для тех студентов, у кого древнегреческий и латинский на уровне 4 курса ОП "Античность"
Learning Objectives
- Acquiring by the students of the basic idea about the main stages of development and about the main genres of the Byzantine literature. They will be trained to the methods of independent analysis of the literary output of Byzantium.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To master the methods of theoretical research in the sphere of the Byzantine literary studies.
- To master the skill of dealing with the results of scholarly analysis and to learn how to interpret them.
- To know the philological approaches to the Byzantine literary texts
- To use philological terms and categories of the scholarly analysis, trained on the example of the Byzantine literacy.
- To learn how to choose methodology in an interdisciplinary research
- To be trained in the literary analysis as applied to the Byzantine written monuments: Both as applied to excerpts read in Greek and to whole literary pieces read in Russian or English translations.
- To learn how to apply methods used in class to any Byzantine literary texts.
Course Contents
- Topic 1. The phenomenon of Byzantine literature.
- Topic 3. Byzantine poetry of classical meters
- Title: Topic 2. Early Byzantine historiography: pagan and Christian
- Title: Topic 4. The emergence of Byzantine hagiography
- Theme: Topic 5. Byzantine liturgical poetry
- Theme: Topic 6. Literature of the “Dark Ages” and “monastic renaissance”.
- Topic 7 “Macedonian renaissance”
- Topic 8. Mid-Byzantine hagiography
- Topic 9. Mid-Byzantine historiography
- Topic 10. Mid-Byzantine poetry
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 учебный год 2 модульпо согласованию с преподавателем
- 2024/2025 учебный год 3 модуль0.5 * Выступления + 0.5 * Работа на семинарах
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Venning, T., & Palgrave Connect (Online service). (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=159548
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Johnson, M. J., Ousterhout, R. G., & Papalexandrou, A. (2016). Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and Its Decoration : Studies in Honor of Slobodan Curcic. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1432293
- Laiou, A. E. (1986). American Historical Review, 91(3), 649. https://doi.org/10.2307/1869165