Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Marius - Liviu Telea |
Seminar tutor: |
Marius - Liviu Telea |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Class |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
28 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
2 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
3 |
Course aims:
- identifying the relation of the History of Byzantium with other theological disciplines and its complementarity with the other disciplines of the historical Theology;
- general study of the major milestones in the History of Byzantium;
- analyzing the principles and methods of the discipline.
Course Entry Requirements:
The Medieval History of the World.
Course contents:
- The Isaurian Emperors and the iconoclastic crisis. The first phase of iconoclasm.
- The Isaurian Emperors and the iconoclastic crisis. The second phase of iconoclasm.
- The Macedonian Dynasty - a new period of progress in the history of Byzantium.
- The decline of the XI-th century. The Great Schism (1054).
- The Byzantine Empire during the Comnenes (1081-1204).
- Byzantium and the first Crusades.
- Byzantium at the end of the XII-th century and the beginning of the XIII-th century.
- The Latin Empire from Constantinople and the Greek states successors of the Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantium in the second half of the XIII-th century and the first half of the XIV-th century.
- The appearance of the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine civil wars.
- Byzantium and the Balkan states confronted with the Ottoman offensive.
- The anti-Ottoman crusades and their failure. Attempts to religious union with Rome.
- The fall of Constantinopleand its consequences.
- Final discussions. Course evaluation.
Teaching methods:
lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Learning outcomes:
- knowledge and appropriate use of specific notions Byzantine history;
- understanding and interpretation of the essential phenomena that customizes the Byzantine Empire among his contemporary political creations;
- the interpretation of the Byzantium phenomenon as a source of understanding of our national history.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written paper – 70%; continuous assessment – 30%.
Recommended reading:
OSTROGORSKY Georges,
Histoire de l’Etat Byzantin, -
, Paris
, 1969
, -
RUNCIMAN, Steven,
Căderea Constantinopolului, -
, Bucureşti
, 1991
, -
VASILEV, A.A,
Istoria Imperiului Bizantin, -
, Iasi
, 2010
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