Course TP212 · Year II · Summer 2024-2025

THE SPIRITUALITY OF BYZANTIUM (IV)

Compulsory course in Pastoral Orthodox Theology, taught by Marius - Liviu Telea.

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Overview

Lecturer
Marius - Liviu Telea
Seminar tutor
Marius - Liviu Telea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Theology
Field of study
Pastoral Orthodox Theology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
The History of Byzantium

Aims

acquiring the spiritual-religious values of the Byzantine culture and civilization.

highlighting the Byzantine heritage in the Romanian space.

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Course contents

  1. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (lodgings and food).
  2. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (textures, ivory, enamels andsemiprecious stones).
  3. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (precious metals, jewelry, fine pearls, precious stones, luxury glassware and stained glass).
  4. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (clothing, hygiene and physical appearance, sexuality, abortion).
  5. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (family life, adultery and divorce, cohabitation, remarriage of widowers, polygamy, rape).
  6. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (widowhood, funeral and cult of the dead, the situation of women in Byzantium, slavery).
  7. Customs and daily life in Byzantium (entertainment, superstitions and heresies, heterodox and heretics).
  8. The intellectual life (secular education and christian education, the byzantine Philosophy).
  9. The intellectual life (science and technology, the byzantine Literature).
  10. The intellectual life (byzantine Art).
  11. The intellectual life (music, theatre)
  12. Byzantium after Byzantium (Byzantium and the romanian Countries, Byzantium and the West).
  13. Byzantium after Byzantium (The Orthodox Church during Ottoman rule, Byzantine heritage and the importance of the Byzantine Empire)
  14. Discusions and the course evaluation.

Learning outcomes

- identifying the relation of the Byzantine civilisation and spirituality with the other theological disciplines and its complemetarity with the other disciplinescu of historical theology;

- the general study of the main landmarks of the Byzantine civilisation and spirituality;

 - analyzing the principles and methods of the discipline

Assessment

Written paper – 70%; continuous assessment – 30%.

Recommended reading

Ideologia politică a Imperiului Bizantin, cu o postfaţă de: Nicolae Şerban TANAŞOCA, traducere de Cristina JINGA
AHRWEILER, Hélène
Editura Corint, Bucuresti, 2002 · -
Sinteză de istorie bizantină
ANDEA, Avram
Editura Helicon, Timişoara, 1995 · -
., Studii bizantine de istorie socială şi economică, traducere şi prefaţă de Alexandru-Florin PLATON, ediţie, note şi comentarii de Ion TODERAŞCU şi Alexandru-Florin PLATON
BRĂTIANU, Gheorghe I
Editura Polirom, Iasi, 2003 · -