Postgraduate MAQ-AHIX8230-2022
City of Constantine
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Duration
18 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
QS RANKING 2022
13
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
11
Subject details
On successful completion, a student will be able to:
- Cultivate a deeper appreciation of a range of cultural, social, religious, and political issues when dealing with sources from the past
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of primary and secondary texts and images through analysis, expression, and argument
- Participate actively in online discussions
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- Byzantium before Constantine
- Age of Constantine
- Age of Justinian
- Age of Iconoclasm
- Age of Crusades
- Byzantine Humanism
- The Byzantine Church
- The Emperor
- Art and Architecture
- Entertainment and Everyday Life
- The Fall of Constantinople
Others
Admission to MAncHist (OUA) or GradCertAncHist (OUA)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject examines the history of Constantinople from its foundation by Constantine the Great in the fourth century to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. Students will learn to analyse critically the cultural, ecclesiastical, intellectual, military, art and architectural history of the city, using literary, documentary and archaeological evidence.
- Weekly online discussion (15%)
- Annotated Bibliography (30%)
- Major essay (55%)