The aim of the course is to give essential and precise diachronic and geographic coordinates, along with clear introductory elements of evenemential history, on the long, coherent and manifold civil and cultural life of Byzantium.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The Byzantine Civilisation module for the Bachelor of Arts degree, aimed at students of Literature but also of Archaeology and Art History, as well as History, Territory and Global Society, aims first of all to answer the question what is Byzantium? What is the purpose of studying Byzantium? How is the study of Byzantium important? And why is it so not only for those interested in Byzantium as such, but also for those who are training in disciplines such as classical philology or Christianity, archaeology or art history - ancient, medieval and modern - and of course history tout court - ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary - as well as the history of religions or that of philosophical thought?
In the first lessons, the diachronic and geographical coordinates of the Byzantine world will be provided. The course will address the main cornerstones of the eventual history of the Eastern Empire. In particular, two primary elements will be emphasised, namely: (1) the role of Byzantium in the perpetuation of the forms of literature, art, study and thought that constitute what we now consider ‘our’ Western European civilisation; (2) the function of the city of Constantinople, located on the border between Europe and Asia, between ‘warm seas’ and ‘cold seas’, and in general the Byzantine world, as a centre of irradiation, convergence, encounter and exchange between civilisations.
The course will then include a number of monographic lectures on crucial contributions to Byzantine civilisation: (1) Byzantine Platonism, with particular attention to the figures of Hypatia of Alexandria and Synesius of Cyrene and their Nachleben. (2) Iconoclasm, the theory of the image and the philosophical substratum of the theology of the Byzantine icon; its development in the Slavic world, leading, in early 20th century Russia, to the birth of abstractionism. (3) The Polis: the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople and the long stream of literary testimonies that from the 6th to the 21st century never cease to describe them. (4) The culminating event in the history of the millennial empire: the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Some reviews (in alphabetical order):
• Bizantinistica (Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi)
• Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata
• Byzantina Symmeikta
• Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzantine Review
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Byzantinoslavica
• Byzantion
• Byzantion Nea Hellás
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Estudios Bizantinos
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
• Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
• Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
• Medioevo Greco
• Nea Rhome
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
• Parekbolai
• Revue des Études Byzantines
• Rivista di Letteratura Comparata Italiana, Bizantina e Neoellenica
• Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neollenici
• Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Vizantijskij Vremennik
• Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta
Some links:
• www.academia.edu
• https://aiebnet.gr/fr/page-daccueil/
• https://biblioteca.orientale.it/
• http://www.byzantium1200.com/
• http://www.doaks.org/
• https://istanbulcitywalls.ku.edu.tr/en/
• http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/
• http://www.scuolavaticanapaleografia.va/content/scuolavaticanapaleografia/it/didattica/corso-annuale-di-paleografia-greca-.html
• http://www.studibizantini.it/
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002
- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255
Programme
Sailing to Byzantium. Introduction to the Byzantine civilisation (“And therefore I have sailed the seas and come / To the holy city of Byzantium”, William Butler Yeats)The Byzantine Civilisation module for the Bachelor of Arts degree, aimed at students of Literature but also of Archaeology and Art History, as well as History, Territory and Global Society, aims first of all to answer the question what is Byzantium? What is the purpose of studying Byzantium? How is the study of Byzantium important? And why is it so not only for those interested in Byzantium as such, but also for those who are training in disciplines such as classical philology or Christianity, archaeology or art history - ancient, medieval and modern - and of course history tout court - ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary - as well as the history of religions or that of philosophical thought?
In the first lessons, the diachronic and geographical coordinates of the Byzantine world will be provided. The course will address the main cornerstones of the eventual history of the Eastern Empire. In particular, two primary elements will be emphasised, namely: (1) the role of Byzantium in the perpetuation of the forms of literature, art, study and thought that constitute what we now consider ‘our’ Western European civilisation; (2) the function of the city of Constantinople, located on the border between Europe and Asia, between ‘warm seas’ and ‘cold seas’, and in general the Byzantine world, as a centre of irradiation, convergence, encounter and exchange between civilisations.
The course will then include a number of monographic lectures on crucial contributions to Byzantine civilisation: (1) Byzantine Platonism, with particular attention to the figures of Hypatia of Alexandria and Synesius of Cyrene and their Nachleben. (2) Iconoclasm, the theory of the image and the philosophical substratum of the theology of the Byzantine icon; its development in the Slavic world, leading, in early 20th century Russia, to the birth of abstractionism. (3) The Polis: the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople and the long stream of literary testimonies that from the 6th to the 21st century never cease to describe them. (4) The culminating event in the history of the millennial empire: the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Some reviews (in alphabetical order):
• Bizantinistica (Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi)
• Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata
• Byzantina Symmeikta
• Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzantine Review
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Byzantinoslavica
• Byzantion
• Byzantion Nea Hellás
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Estudios Bizantinos
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
• Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
• Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
• Medioevo Greco
• Nea Rhome
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
• Parekbolai
• Revue des Études Byzantines
• Rivista di Letteratura Comparata Italiana, Bizantina e Neoellenica
• Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neollenici
• Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Vizantijskij Vremennik
• Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta
Some links:
• www.academia.edu
• https://aiebnet.gr/fr/page-daccueil/
• https://biblioteca.orientale.it/
• http://www.byzantium1200.com/
• http://www.doaks.org/
• https://istanbulcitywalls.ku.edu.tr/en/
• http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/
• http://www.scuolavaticanapaleografia.va/content/scuolavaticanapaleografia/it/didattica/corso-annuale-di-paleografia-greca-.html
• http://www.studibizantini.it/
Core Documentation
MANDATORY TEXTS- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002
- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255
Reference Bibliography
OPTIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG N.B. IMPORTANT. Students who have not attended the course in any way, either in presence or remotely via Teams connection or in deferred listening (carefully) to the recordings on the module's Teams platform, must bring to the examination, in addition to the mandatory texts, one or two of the texts in category B. They must agree on these in advance with the teacher, even if only by email, so that the choice is congruent with their interests and course of study and functional to their Byzantine training. The use of oral lectures, in one of the three ways indicated above, is however strongly recommended: it is less tiring and gives better results. Texts or teaching materials not included in this list may also be suggested by the teacher, to be identified on the basis of an assessment of the specific interests and/or cursus studiorum of the individual student. - G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell’impero bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2005 - M. Di Branco, Breve Storia di Bisanzio, Roma 2016 - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino, I: L’impero romano d’Oriente (330-641), C. a c. di C. Morrisson, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2007 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino, II: l’Impero bizantino (641-1204), a c. di J.-C. Cheynet, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2008 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino. III: L’Impero greco (1204-1453), a c. di A. Laiou e C. Morrisson, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - S. Ronchey, Ipazia. La vera storia, Milano, BUR, 2017 - S. Ronchey, L’enigma di Piero, Milano, BUR, 2017 - A.P. Kazhdan - S. Ronchey, L’aristocrazia bizantina, postfazione di L. Canfora, Palermo, Sellerio, 1999 - AA.VV., Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo, III/2. La cultura bizantina, a c. di G. Cavallo, Roma, Salerno, 2004 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., L’uomo bizantino, a c. di G. Cavallo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992 - A. Kazhdan, Bisanzio e la sua civiltà, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 - A. Kazhdan, La produzione intellettuale a Bisanzio. Libri e scrittori in una società colta, Napoli, Liguori, 1983 - É. Patlagean, Un Medioevo greco. Bisanzio tra IX e XV secolo, Bari, Laterza, 2009 - G. Dagron, Costantinopoli. Nascita di una capitale, trad. it., Einaudi 1991 - P. Schreiner, Costantinopoli, metropoli dai mille volti, Roma, Salerno, 2009 - S. Ronchey – T. Braccini, Il romanzo di Costantinopoli. Guida letteraria alla Roma d’Oriente, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 - S. Ronchey – P. Cesaretti (a c. di), Storia di Barlaam e Ioasaf: la vita bizantina del Buddha, Torino, Einaudi, 2012 - Hans Belting, Il culto delle immagini, trad. it., Roma, Carocci, 2004 - Alain Besançon, L'immagine proibita. Una storia intellettuale dell'iconoclastia, Milano, Marietti, 2009 - S. Runciman, La teocrazia bizantina, trad. it., introduzione di S. Ronchey, Milano, Sansoni, 2003 - G. Ravegnani, Bisanzio e Le Crociate, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011 - J. Herrin, Ravenna, trad. it., Milano, Rizzoli, 2021 - G. Ravegnani, I bizantini in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 - S. Ronchey, Bisanzio Continuata. Presupposti ideologici dell’attualizzazione di Bisanzio nell’età moderna, in G. Cavallo (a cura di), Lo spazio letterario del medioevo, III/1. La cultura bizantina, Roma, Salerno, 2005, pp. 691-727 - S. Ronchey, Charles Diehl, o del bizantinismo, in C. Diehl, Figure bizantine, ed. it., Torino, Einaudi 2007, pp. vii-xiv MORE OPTIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG - A. Pertusi, Bizantina, Civiltà, in “Enciclopedia Italiana”, App. II/1 (1938-48), Roma, 1948, pp. 414 sgg - G. Ravegnani, Introduzione alla Storia Bizantina, Bologna, 2006 - A. Rhoby, La letteratura bizantina. Un profilo storico, trad. it., Roma, 2022 - A. Cameron, I Bizantini, trad. it., Bologna, 2008 - W. Treadgold, Storia di Bisanzio, trad. it., Bologna, 2005 - J. Harris, La fine di Bisanzio, trad. it., Milano, 2013 - J. Herrin, Bisanzio. Storia straordinaria di un impero millenario, trad. it., Milano, Corbaccio, 2008 - J. J. Norwich, Bisanzio. Splendore e decadenza di un impero. 330-1453, trad. it., Milano 2001 - L. Brubaker, L’invenzione dell’iconoclasmo bizantino, trad. it., a c. di M. C. Carile, Roma, Viella, 2016 - A. Ducellier - M. Kaplan, Bisanzio, 4.-15. secolo, trad. it., Cinisello Balsamo 2005 - M. Gallina, Bisanzio. Storia di un impero (secoli IV-XIII), Roma 2008 - G. Ravegnani, Imperatori di Bisanzio, Bologna, 2008 MORE INTRODUCTORY TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG, ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, IN FRENCH, AND IN GERMAN - The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500–1492, ed. di J. Shepard (2009) - The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, edd. E. Jeffreys - J.F. Haldon - R. Cormack, Oxford 2008 - A Companion to Byzantium, ed. L. James, Chichester 2010 - The Byzantine World, ed. P. Stephenson, London, 2010 - M.-F. Auzépy, L’iconoclasme, Paris 2006 - The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. P. Kazhdan, 3 voll., Oxford, 1991 (non più aggiornato) - The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 13, The Late Empire, AD 337–425, edd. A. Cameron - P. Garnsey (1998) e Vol. 14, Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425–600, edd. A. Cameron - B. Ward-Perkins - M. Whitby (2001) - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Voll. 1-7, che copre il periodo 500–1500 (vari editori, pubblicato tra 1998 e 2005) - J. Haldon, Byzantium: A History, Stroud 2005 - T. E., Gregory, A History of Byzantium, Malden, MA, 2005 - D. Stathakopoulos, A Short History of the Byzantine Empire, London 2014 - J. Herrin, Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium, Princeton 2013 - L. Garland, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204, Milton Park, 2011 - A. Cameron, Byzantine Matters, Princeton 2014 - M. Kaplan, Pourquoi Byzance? Un empire de onze siècles, Paris 2016 - J. Preiser-Kapeller, Byzanz: Das Neue Rom und die Welt des Mittelalters, München 2023 - A. Kaldellis, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Oxford 2023 - M. Ivanova – B. Anderson, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?, Pennsylvania State University 2023Type of delivery of the course
In personAttendance
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Oral exam teacher profile teaching materials
The Byzantine Civilisation module for the Bachelor of Arts degree, aimed at students of Literature but also of Archaeology and Art History, as well as History, Territory and Global Society, aims first of all to answer the question what is Byzantium? What is the purpose of studying Byzantium? How is the study of Byzantium important? And why is it so not only for those interested in Byzantium as such, but also for those who are training in disciplines such as classical philology or Christianity, archaeology or art history - ancient, medieval and modern - and of course history tout court - ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary - as well as the history of religions or that of philosophical thought?
In the first lessons, the diachronic and geographical coordinates of the Byzantine world will be provided. The course will address the main cornerstones of the eventual history of the Eastern Empire. In particular, two primary elements will be emphasised, namely: (1) the role of Byzantium in the perpetuation of the forms of literature, art, study and thought that constitute what we now consider ‘our’ Western European civilisation; (2) the function of the city of Constantinople, located on the border between Europe and Asia, between ‘warm seas’ and ‘cold seas’, and in general the Byzantine world, as a centre of irradiation, convergence, encounter and exchange between civilisations.
The course will then include a number of monographic lectures on crucial contributions to Byzantine civilisation: (1) Byzantine Platonism, with particular attention to the figures of Hypatia of Alexandria and Synesius of Cyrene and their Nachleben. (2) Iconoclasm, the theory of the image and the philosophical substratum of the theology of the Byzantine icon; its development in the Slavic world, leading, in early 20th century Russia, to the birth of abstractionism. (3) The Polis: the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople and the long stream of literary testimonies that from the 6th to the 21st century never cease to describe them. (4) The culminating event in the history of the millennial empire: the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Some reviews (in alphabetical order):
• Bizantinistica (Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi)
• Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata
• Byzantina Symmeikta
• Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzantine Review
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Byzantinoslavica
• Byzantion
• Byzantion Nea Hellás
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Estudios Bizantinos
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
• Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
• Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
• Medioevo Greco
• Nea Rhome
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
• Parekbolai
• Revue des Études Byzantines
• Rivista di Letteratura Comparata Italiana, Bizantina e Neoellenica
• Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neollenici
• Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Vizantijskij Vremennik
• Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta
Some links:
• www.academia.edu
• https://aiebnet.gr/fr/page-daccueil/
• https://biblioteca.orientale.it/
• http://www.byzantium1200.com/
• http://www.doaks.org/
• https://istanbulcitywalls.ku.edu.tr/en/
• http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/
• http://www.scuolavaticanapaleografia.va/content/scuolavaticanapaleografia/it/didattica/corso-annuale-di-paleografia-greca-.html
• http://www.studibizantini.it/
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002
- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255
Programme
Sailing to Byzantium. Introduction to the Byzantine civilisation (“And therefore I have sailed the seas and come / To the holy city of Byzantium”, William Butler Yeats)The Byzantine Civilisation module for the Bachelor of Arts degree, aimed at students of Literature but also of Archaeology and Art History, as well as History, Territory and Global Society, aims first of all to answer the question what is Byzantium? What is the purpose of studying Byzantium? How is the study of Byzantium important? And why is it so not only for those interested in Byzantium as such, but also for those who are training in disciplines such as classical philology or Christianity, archaeology or art history - ancient, medieval and modern - and of course history tout court - ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary - as well as the history of religions or that of philosophical thought?
In the first lessons, the diachronic and geographical coordinates of the Byzantine world will be provided. The course will address the main cornerstones of the eventual history of the Eastern Empire. In particular, two primary elements will be emphasised, namely: (1) the role of Byzantium in the perpetuation of the forms of literature, art, study and thought that constitute what we now consider ‘our’ Western European civilisation; (2) the function of the city of Constantinople, located on the border between Europe and Asia, between ‘warm seas’ and ‘cold seas’, and in general the Byzantine world, as a centre of irradiation, convergence, encounter and exchange between civilisations.
The course will then include a number of monographic lectures on crucial contributions to Byzantine civilisation: (1) Byzantine Platonism, with particular attention to the figures of Hypatia of Alexandria and Synesius of Cyrene and their Nachleben. (2) Iconoclasm, the theory of the image and the philosophical substratum of the theology of the Byzantine icon; its development in the Slavic world, leading, in early 20th century Russia, to the birth of abstractionism. (3) The Polis: the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople and the long stream of literary testimonies that from the 6th to the 21st century never cease to describe them. (4) The culminating event in the history of the millennial empire: the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Some reviews (in alphabetical order):
• Bizantinistica (Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi)
• Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata
• Byzantina Symmeikta
• Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzantine Review
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Byzantinoslavica
• Byzantion
• Byzantion Nea Hellás
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Estudios Bizantinos
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
• Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
• Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
• Medioevo Greco
• Nea Rhome
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
• Parekbolai
• Revue des Études Byzantines
• Rivista di Letteratura Comparata Italiana, Bizantina e Neoellenica
• Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neollenici
• Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Vizantijskij Vremennik
• Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta
Some links:
• www.academia.edu
• https://aiebnet.gr/fr/page-daccueil/
• https://biblioteca.orientale.it/
• http://www.byzantium1200.com/
• http://www.doaks.org/
• https://istanbulcitywalls.ku.edu.tr/en/
• http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/
• http://www.scuolavaticanapaleografia.va/content/scuolavaticanapaleografia/it/didattica/corso-annuale-di-paleografia-greca-.html
• http://www.studibizantini.it/
Core Documentation
MANDATORY TEXTS- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002
- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255
Reference Bibliography
OPTIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG N.B. IMPORTANT. Students who have not attended the course in any way, either in presence or remotely via Teams connection or in deferred listening (carefully) to the recordings on the module's Teams platform, must bring to the examination, in addition to the mandatory texts, one or two of the texts in category B. They must agree on these in advance with the teacher, even if only by email, so that the choice is congruent with their interests and course of study and functional to their Byzantine training. The use of oral lectures, in one of the three ways indicated above, is however strongly recommended: it is less tiring and gives better results. Texts or teaching materials not included in this list may also be suggested by the teacher, to be identified on the basis of an assessment of the specific interests and/or cursus studiorum of the individual student. - G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell’impero bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2005 - M. Di Branco, Breve Storia di Bisanzio, Roma 2016 - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino, I: L’impero romano d’Oriente (330-641), C. a c. di C. Morrisson, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2007 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino, II: l’Impero bizantino (641-1204), a c. di J.-C. Cheynet, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2008 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., Il mondo bizantino. III: L’Impero greco (1204-1453), a c. di A. Laiou e C. Morrisson, edizione italiana a c. di S. Ronchey e T. Braccini, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - S. Ronchey, Ipazia. La vera storia, Milano, BUR, 2017 - S. Ronchey, L’enigma di Piero, Milano, BUR, 2017 - A.P. Kazhdan - S. Ronchey, L’aristocrazia bizantina, postfazione di L. Canfora, Palermo, Sellerio, 1999 - AA.VV., Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo, III/2. La cultura bizantina, a c. di G. Cavallo, Roma, Salerno, 2004 [chapters to be chosen together with the Professor] - AA.VV., L’uomo bizantino, a c. di G. Cavallo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992 - A. Kazhdan, Bisanzio e la sua civiltà, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 - A. Kazhdan, La produzione intellettuale a Bisanzio. Libri e scrittori in una società colta, Napoli, Liguori, 1983 - É. Patlagean, Un Medioevo greco. Bisanzio tra IX e XV secolo, Bari, Laterza, 2009 - G. Dagron, Costantinopoli. Nascita di una capitale, trad. it., Einaudi 1991 - P. Schreiner, Costantinopoli, metropoli dai mille volti, Roma, Salerno, 2009 - S. Ronchey – T. Braccini, Il romanzo di Costantinopoli. Guida letteraria alla Roma d’Oriente, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 - S. Ronchey – P. Cesaretti (a c. di), Storia di Barlaam e Ioasaf: la vita bizantina del Buddha, Torino, Einaudi, 2012 - Hans Belting, Il culto delle immagini, trad. it., Roma, Carocci, 2004 - Alain Besançon, L'immagine proibita. Una storia intellettuale dell'iconoclastia, Milano, Marietti, 2009 - S. Runciman, La teocrazia bizantina, trad. it., introduzione di S. Ronchey, Milano, Sansoni, 2003 - G. Ravegnani, Bisanzio e Le Crociate, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011 - J. Herrin, Ravenna, trad. it., Milano, Rizzoli, 2021 - G. Ravegnani, I bizantini in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 - S. Ronchey, Bisanzio Continuata. Presupposti ideologici dell’attualizzazione di Bisanzio nell’età moderna, in G. Cavallo (a cura di), Lo spazio letterario del medioevo, III/1. La cultura bizantina, Roma, Salerno, 2005, pp. 691-727 - S. Ronchey, Charles Diehl, o del bizantinismo, in C. Diehl, Figure bizantine, ed. it., Torino, Einaudi 2007, pp. vii-xiv MORE OPTIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG - A. Pertusi, Bizantina, Civiltà, in “Enciclopedia Italiana”, App. II/1 (1938-48), Roma, 1948, pp. 414 sgg - G. Ravegnani, Introduzione alla Storia Bizantina, Bologna, 2006 - A. Rhoby, La letteratura bizantina. Un profilo storico, trad. it., Roma, 2022 - A. Cameron, I Bizantini, trad. it., Bologna, 2008 - W. Treadgold, Storia di Bisanzio, trad. it., Bologna, 2005 - J. Harris, La fine di Bisanzio, trad. it., Milano, 2013 - J. Herrin, Bisanzio. Storia straordinaria di un impero millenario, trad. it., Milano, Corbaccio, 2008 - J. J. Norwich, Bisanzio. Splendore e decadenza di un impero. 330-1453, trad. it., Milano 2001 - L. Brubaker, L’invenzione dell’iconoclasmo bizantino, trad. it., a c. di M. C. Carile, Roma, Viella, 2016 - A. Ducellier - M. Kaplan, Bisanzio, 4.-15. secolo, trad. it., Cinisello Balsamo 2005 - M. Gallina, Bisanzio. Storia di un impero (secoli IV-XIII), Roma 2008 - G. Ravegnani, Imperatori di Bisanzio, Bologna, 2008 MORE INTRODUCTORY TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG, ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, IN FRENCH, AND IN GERMAN - The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500–1492, ed. di J. Shepard (2009) - The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, edd. E. Jeffreys - J.F. Haldon - R. Cormack, Oxford 2008 - A Companion to Byzantium, ed. L. James, Chichester 2010 - The Byzantine World, ed. P. Stephenson, London, 2010 - M.-F. Auzépy, L’iconoclasme, Paris 2006 - The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. P. Kazhdan, 3 voll., Oxford, 1991 (non più aggiornato) - The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 13, The Late Empire, AD 337–425, edd. A. Cameron - P. Garnsey (1998) e Vol. 14, Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425–600, edd. A. Cameron - B. Ward-Perkins - M. Whitby (2001) - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Voll. 1-7, che copre il periodo 500–1500 (vari editori, pubblicato tra 1998 e 2005) - J. Haldon, Byzantium: A History, Stroud 2005 - T. E., Gregory, A History of Byzantium, Malden, MA, 2005 - D. Stathakopoulos, A Short History of the Byzantine Empire, London 2014 - J. Herrin, Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium, Princeton 2013 - L. Garland, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204, Milton Park, 2011 - A. Cameron, Byzantine Matters, Princeton 2014 - M. Kaplan, Pourquoi Byzance? Un empire de onze siècles, Paris 2016 - J. Preiser-Kapeller, Byzanz: Das Neue Rom und die Welt des Mittelalters, München 2023 - A. Kaldellis, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Oxford 2023 - M. Ivanova – B. Anderson, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?, Pennsylvania State University 2023Type of delivery of the course
In personAttendance
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Oral exam