Material culture in early Middle Ages III (PhD)

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

Course objectives: Enabling of students to recognize and interpret finds of early medieval material culture by themselves.

Course description: Overview, classification and analysis of finds of early medieval material culture. Morphological and technological analysis of small finds from all spheres of human activities. The study of manufacturing centers for diverse types of finds, the courses of their expanding, as well as their role in the acculturation process.

Learning Outcomes: Students enabled to recognize and interpret finds of early medieval material culture by themselves.

Literature/Reading:

• P. Špehar, Materijalna kultura iz ranovizantijskih utvrđenja u Đerdapu, Beograd 2010.
• M. Milinković, Gradina na Jelici. Ranovizantijski grad i srednjovekovno utvrđenje, Beograd 2010.
• M. Vogt, Spangenhelme. Baldenheim und verwandte typen, Mainz 2006.
• A. V. Mastыkova, Ženskiѝ kostюm centralьnogo i zapadnogo predkavkazья v konce IV –seredine VI v. n.э., Moskva 2009.
• C. Morrisson, V. Popović, V. Ivanišević, Les Trésors monétaires byzantins des Balkans et d`Asie Mineure (491-713), Paris 2006.
• M. Schulze-Dörrlamm, Byzantinische Gürtelschnallen und Gürtelbeschläge im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum I, Mainz 2002.
• E. Riemer, Romanische Grabfunde des 5-8. Jahrhunderts in Italien, Rahden/Westf 2000.
• M. Schulze-Dörrlamm, Byzantinische Gürtelschnallen und Gürtelbeschläge im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum II, Mainz 2010.
• J. Henning, Südosteuropa zwischen Antike und Mittelalter: archäologische Beiträge zur Landwirtschaft des 1. Jahrtaunsend u. Z., Berlin 1987.
• J. Werner, Der Shatzfund von Vrap in Albanien, Wien 1986.
• Byzanz. Das Römerreich im Mitelalter 1-3, Hrsg. F. Daim, J. Drauschke, Mainz 2011.
• The Pontic-Danubian Realm in the Period of the Great Migration, eds. V. Ivanišević, M. Kazanski, Paris-Belgrade 2012.