This unit studies early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture, along with early Jewish and early Islamic art, and the influence of Byzantine art and architecture on Europe, the Balkans, Russia and the Caucasus. It investigates the interrelationship and interchange of artistic and architectural traditions through Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. This unit will seek to contextualize extant visual and material culture and examine the various attitudes to images that are apparent in relation to: geography, chronology, religion, society and politics. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Ken Parry
Prerequisites: Admission to MA in (Ancient History or Coptic Studies or ECJS or Egyptology or History or Late Antiquity or Ancient Art and Architecture) or PGDipArts in (Ancient History or ECJS) or PGCertArts in (Ancient History or Coptic Studies)
