The Art of the Early Middle Ages in the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: The student must fulfill the Faculty of Philosophy Statute requirements. The attendance at lectures and group in-class discussions is mandatory.

Course objectives: The goal of the course is to introduce students with the beginning, development and trends of medieval art in the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe.

Course description: The content of the course includes presentation of all aspects in the domain of fine arts and visual culture created in Byzantium and the countries of the Byzantine influence during the rule of the Macedonian dynasty, as well as those that emerged in the early Middle Ages on the territory of Western Europe.The practical part of the course includes introducing with individual representative examples of art through museum practice, field work and via electronic data base.

Learning Outcomes: After attending this course the student will be able to study works of art and understand them in religious, ideological, social and cultural context.

Literature/Reading:

• E. Kubah, V. Elbern, Karolinška i otonska umetnost, Novi Sad 1973.
• P. Vercone, Od Teodoriha do Karla Velikog, Novi Sad 1973
• Grupa autora, Rani srednji vek, Beograd 1967.
• J.Beckwith, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Harmondsworth 1970.
• F. Henry, Irish Art in the Early Christian Period, London 1940.
• From Ireland coming : Irish art from the early Christian to the late Gothic period and its European context, ed.Column Hourihane, Princeton University Press 2001.
• Katarina Oto-dorn, Islamska umetnost, Novi Sad 1971.
• Carolingian Painting, introduction by F. Mutherich, provenances and commentaries by J. E. Gaehde, London 1977.
• A. Doig, Lithurgy and Architecture> form the Early Church to the Middle Ages, Farnham, Burlington 2010.