Jewelry from the 6th – 17th Centuries

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To allow students to acquire theoretic and practical knowledge about jewelry and to enable them to do scientifically study it.

Course description: Students will learn about the importance of jewelry in the process of determining culture identity, economic status and date.They will also learn about the methodology used in the study of jewelry in the Slavic part of central Europe. Jewelry is the most numerous archaeological object found in cemeteries and helps in the reconstruction of dress.

Learning Outcomes: Essay and oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• Bizantine Jewellery, in Greek Jewellery 6000 Years of Tradition, 151-247, Athens 1997.
• Jewellery, in Everyday Life in Byzantium, 402-453, Athens 2002.
• V. Grigorov, Metalni nakiti ot srednovekovna Bъlgariя (VI-XI v.), Sofiя 2007.
• Giesler, J. Untersuchungen zur Chronologie der Bijelo Brdo-Kultur, Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Band 56, Heft 1, Berlin-New York 1981, 88-151.
• B. Radojković, Nakit kod Srba od XII do kraja XVIII veka, Beograd 1969.
• J. Kovačević, Srednjovekovna nošnja balkanskih Slovena, Beograd 1953.
• Ž. Demo, Bijelobrdski privjesci u Jugoslaviji, Podravski zbornik 1983, Koprivnica 1983, 271-298.
• E. Zečević, Nakit Novog Brda, Beograd 2006.
• M. Janković, Neki podaci o predmetima od obojenih metala na Ključu Dunava u IX-XI veku, Zbornik Narodnog muzej XI, Beograd 1981, 99-112.
• N. Jakšić i M. Petrinec, Kasnosrednjovjekovno groblje kod crkve Sv. Spasa u Vrh Rici, Starohrvatska prosvjeta, III serija - sv. 23, Split 1996.