The course aims to tackle the study of the European Middle Ages taking concepts of visual and material culture as its starting point, and as means of investigating complex dynamics related to different social groups and environments.
Upon successful completion of the module, students will:
1- Be able to analyse, describe and discuss a variety of visual and material forms and media from different cultural and social contexts of medieval Europe;
2- Have acquired knowledge on how and why contemporary social, anthropological, and ethnographic theories related to visual and material culture are relevant to the study of medieval Europe, its history and art;
3- Be able to recognise, examine, and discuss the various meanings that medieval artworks could carry, as objects that conveyed contents and significance through their visual and material qualities;
4- Have achieved awareness, understanding, and command of concepts of perception, response, vision, visuality, and materiality as they were grasped in the Middle Ages, and have developed the ability to employ them in the study on medieval artworks.
Upon successful completion of the module, students will:
1- Be able to analyse, describe and discuss a variety of visual and material forms and media from different cultural and social contexts of medieval Europe;
2- Have acquired knowledge on how and why contemporary social, anthropological, and ethnographic theories related to visual and material culture are relevant to the study of medieval Europe, its history and art;
3- Be able to recognise, examine, and discuss the various meanings that medieval artworks could carry, as objects that conveyed contents and significance through their visual and material qualities;
4- Have achieved awareness, understanding, and command of concepts of perception, response, vision, visuality, and materiality as they were grasped in the Middle Ages, and have developed the ability to employ them in the study on medieval artworks.
- Docente: Zuleika Murat