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Instructors: Dr. Christine Stephan-Kaissis
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
07.012.16_130
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Contents:
In the history and cultural sciences, the term “renaissance” generally refers to a phase of intensive study and engagement with the knowledge, culture, and art of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Concerning the medieval art and culture of the Eastern Roman Empire, today mostly referred to as the “Byzantine Middle Ages”, two such ‘revivals’ of the Greco-Roman past come to mind: the so-called 'Macedonian Renaissance', which coincided with the political rise of the Macedonian dynasty in the ninth and the tenth century, and the so-called 'Palaiologan Renaissance', which takes its name from the Byzantine dynasty of the Paleologoi, ruling from 1261 until the final collapse of the empire in Constantinople.
The lecture surveys and compares the visual language and style developed during these two "Byzantine Renaissances" and reflects on the question, whether we rightly may call them “Renaissances” at all. In addition, we will examine the issue of cultural dynamics between Greek East and Latin West concerning the revival of ancient Greco-Roman art in the Middle Ages.
Recommended reading list:
Kompa, Andrzej, Democratisation of Renaissance(s): General Terminological Shifts and the Middle Byzantine Renaissance within the Historiography, in: Bizancjum a renesansy. Dialog Kultur, dziedzictwo antyku – Tradycja a wspólczesnosc, eds. M. Janocha, A. Sulikowska, I. Tatarova, et al., Warschau 2010 (with extensive references to further reading see esp. p. 178, note 61,p .179, note 63). https://www.academia.edu/26161122/Democratisation_of_Renaissance_s_General_Terminological_Shifts_and_the_Middle_Byzantine_Renaissance_within_the_Historiography_in_Bizancjum_a_renesansy._Dialog_Kultur_dziedzictwo_antyku_Tradycja_a_wsp%C3%B3%C5%82czesno%C5%9B%C4%87_eds._M._Janocha_A._Sulikowska_I._Tatarova_et_al._Warszawa_2012
The Glory of Byzantium: art and culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261, Exh. Cat. in conjunction with the Exhibition "The Glory of Byzantium“, 1997 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helen C. Evans (ed.), New York 1997 (PDF online)
Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261-1557). Exh. Cat. of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the Exhibition "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261 - 1557)" 2004, Helen C. Evans (ed.), New York 2007 (PDF online)
Warren Treadgold (Hrsg.): Renaissances before the Renaissance. Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. University Press, Stanford CA 1984 (vgl. insbesondere Kapitel 4: Treadgold, W., The Macedonian Renaissance, S. 75-98; Kapitel 7: Ševcenko, I., The Paleologan Renaissance, S. 144-171).
Speck, Paul, Ikonoklasmus und die Anfänge der Makedonischen Renaissance, in Poikila Byzantina, Bd. 4. 1984: 175-210
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