REMgrA04 Byzantine Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Kulhánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 12:30–15:45 A24
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Schopnost porozumění řeckému literárnímu i odbornému textu.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Byzantine and literary texts are read and interpreted in the seminar. In the course of the seminar, students learn the principles of literary work with text and at the end of the seminar they are capable of independent interpretation of an assigned literary work. The list of literature changes every year, depending on the topic of the course. In the autimn term 2016 the seminar is dedicated to the Byzantine literature of the 12th cent. The deadline for submission of essays: 31st December 2016
Syllabus
  • 6. 10.: introduction: innovation and tradition in the literature of the 12th cent.
  • 20. 10.: Digenis Akritis: reading, translating, interpretation
  • 3. 10.: Nikolaos Zagklas (Vienna): Learned poetry of the 12th cent.
  • 15. 11: attendance of the Byzantine and Modern Greek sessions of the conference Laetae segetes
  • 24. 11.: Stephanos Efthymiadis (Kypr).
  • 15. 12.: Przemyslaw Marciniak (Katowice): Byzantine satire of the 12th cent.
Literature
  • BROWNING 1975: Robert Browning, Enlightenment and Repression in Byzantium in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Past and Present, LXIX, 3–23
  • ALEXIOU M. 1982: Margaret Alexiou, Literary Subversion and the Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: A Stylistic Analysis of the Timarion (ch. 6–10), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies VIII, 29–45.
  • Agapitos, P. “Grammar, genre and patronage in the twelfth century: redefining a scientific paradigm in the history of Byzantine literature”, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014) 1-22.
  • KAZHDAN – EPSTEIN 1985: Alexander Kazhdan – Ann Wharton Epstein, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Berkeley – Los Angeles – London.
  • MAGDALINO, Paul. The empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2002, xix, 557. ISBN 0521526531. info
  • VLACHAKOS, Petros K. Timariōn : ī peri tōn kat' auton pathīmatōn. Thessaloníkī: Zītros, 2001, 276 s. ISBN 9607760697. info
  • The perception of the past in twelfth-century Europe. Edited by Paul Magdalino. Rio Grande, OH: Hambledon Press, 1992, xvi, 240 p. ISBN 1852850663. info
Teaching methods
The course has a form of a seminar.
Assessment methods
Active participation, homework and submission of an essay, deadline 10. 1. 2017.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
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