Archaeological testimonies of Christianization (PhD)

Pre-requisites: The knowledge of foreign languages and approved sense for scientific work.

Course objectives: The study of the process of Christianization, recognition of its material traces, their adequate dating and interpretation. The observation of the role and importance of Christianization in cultural and social context.

Course description: Theoretical course about the material traces of the process of Christianization in south-eastern Europe, as well as in other areas, considering the information in written sources. The study of pertaining of "pagan relicts" during the Christianization proces in Middle Ages.

Learning Outcomes: Enabling the students for the research of the process of Christianization, recognition of its material traces, their adequate dating and interpretation. The observation of the role and importance of Christianization in cultural and social context.

Literature/Reading:

• F. Barišić, Grčki natpisi na ikonama ostave u Rakovcu, Zbornik Filozofskog fakulteta X/1, Beograd 1968, 211-216.
• K. Weitzman, Ivories and Steatites: Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection III, Washington 1972.
• L. Dončeva-Petkova, Srednovekovni krьstove enkolpioni ot Bьlgariя, Sofiя 2011.
• O. Ilić, Paleohrišćanski liturgijski predmeti i delovi crkvene opreme na teritoriji južne Srbije, Niš i Vizantija VI, Niš 2008, 125-136.
• I. Kalavrezou-Maxeiner, Byzantine Icons in Steatite, Vienna 1985.
• M. Marjanović-Vujović, Krstovi od VI do XII veka iz zbirke Narodnog muzeja, Beograd 1987.
• M. Milinković, Prilog proučavanju tzv. ranohrišćanskih polijeleja u Srbiji, Niš i Vizantija IX, Niš 2011, 73-84.
• B. Pitarakis, Les Croix-reliquaires pectorales byzantines en bronze, Paris 2006.
• P. Špehar, By their fruit you will recognize them - Christianization of the Serbia in Middle Ages, Funeralia Lednickie 12, eds. W. Dzieduszycki, J. Wrzesiński, Poznań 2010, 203-220.
• P. Špehar, Lična pobožnost na prostoru Ohridske arhiepiskopije u svetlu arheoloških nalaza XI-XIII veka, u:Vizantijski svet na Balkanu I, ur. B. Krsmanović, Lj. Mksimović, R. Radić, Beograd 2012, 205-220.
• H. A. Klein, Eastern Objects and Western Desires: Relics and Reliquaries between Byzantium and the West, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58, Washington 2004, 283-314.
• G. F. Korzuhina, A. A. Peskova, Drevnerusskie эnkolpionы. Nagrudnыe krestы-relikviarii XI-XII vv, Sankt Petersburg 2003.
• R. Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, New Haven – London 1986.
• A. Minchev, Early Christian Reliquaries from Bulgaria, 4th to 6th Century, Varna 2003.
• S. Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: From Diocletian to Suleyman the Magnificent, c. 300-1550, New Haven 2010.