Byzantium: Lectures
HA229: The Art of Byzantium, 843-1261
Lecture List
Autumn Term
week 1: What’s the point of Byzantium?
week 2: Orientation and survey
week 3: Displaying god
week 4: Displaying man
week 5: Luxury and the past
week 6: reading week
week 7: Constantinople: the heart of empire
week 8: The view from outside I: Cappadocia
week 9: The view from outside II: the Caucasus
week 10: Art and Cult in Byzantium
Spring Term
week 11: Earthly poverty or divine wealth?
week 12: Gender and chaos in the eleventh century
week 13: Art and Eternity
week 14: Windows onto heaven?
week 15: Patronage and the Komnenoi
week 16: reading week
week 17: Text and image
week 18: The view from outside III: Venice
week 19: The view from outside IV: Sicily
week 20: The view from outside V: The East
Summer Term
week 21: no lecture
week 22: exhibiting Byzantium
week 23: 1261 reinventing Byzantium
week 24: conclusions
week 25: revision
Antony Eastmond
29/09/2003