The Architecture of Byzantium and Western Europe in the Middle Ages (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: The student must fulfill requirements prescribed by the regulations of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Course objectives: The goal is the acquirement of extensive knowledge on the subject of fundamental characteristics and trends in history of architecture starting from early Christianity to the late Gothic period.

Course description: The theoretical segment of the course concerns chronological presentation with reference to medieval architectural trends, while acquiring common and fundamental characteristics within the narrowed time periods, as well as focusing and emphasizing the manifestation of compatible features that had been appearing in Serbian architecture at the equivalent period of time. The practical section of the course is oriented towards the interactive work with students via sufficient visual support previously arranged with the course instructor.

Learning Outcomes: The course is designed to introduce students with trends and utilization of medieval architecture analysis, as well as with natural, materialistic, social and other different circumstances under which various architectural structures and creations have been made.

Literature/Reading:

• V. Korać – M. Šuput, Arhitektura vizantijskog sveta, Beograd 1998, 37-79, 135-265, 287-328, 372-385.
• R. Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, Fourth edition (Revised by R. Krautheimer and S. Ćurčić), Penguin Books 1986 (repr. 1989), 39-92, 99-110, 117-135, 168-174, 181-187..
• A. Grabar, Vizantija: vizantijska umetnost srednjeg veka (od VII do XV veka), Novi Sad 1969, 49-71.
• R. Stalley, Early Medieval Architecture, Oxford Un. Press 1999, 37-81,147-211.
• A. Doig, Lithurgy and Architecture: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages, Farnham, Burlington 2010, 135-196.
• G. Ostrogorski, Istorija Vizantije, Beograd 1959. (više izdanja)
• D. Obolenski, Vizantijski komonvelt, Beograd 1996.
• V.V. Bičkov, Vizantijska estetika, Beograd 1991.
• S.S. Averincev, Poetika ranovizantijske književnosti, Beograd 1982.
• A. Každan, Ž. Konstabl, Vizantija - ljudi i moć: uvod u savremene vizantijske studije, Beograd 2009.
• F. Brodel, Mediteran. Prostor i istorija, Beograd 1995.
• S. Peinter, Istorija srednjeg veka (284-1500), Beograd 1997.
• A. Gurevič, Kategorije srednjovekovne kulture, Novi Sad 1994.
• Ž. Dibi, Vreme katedrala. Umetnost i društvo 980-1420, Beograd 1989.
• Ž. Le Gof, Srednjovekovna civilizacija Zapadne Evrope, Beograd 1974.
• Ž. Zeler, Počeci hrišćanstva na Balkanu, Podgorica 2005.
• Dž. Majendorf, Vizantijsko bogoslovlje, Kragujevac 1985.
• Dž. Linč, Istorija srednjovekovne crkve, Beograd 1999.
• P. Braun, Uspon hrišćanstva na Zapadu: trijumf i raznolikost 200-1000. godine, Beograd 2010.
• Dž. Drejn, Uvođenje u Stari Zavet, Beograd 2003.
• Dž. Drejn, Uvođenje u Novi Zavet, Beograd 2005.
• Kritički termini istorije umetnosti, priredili R.S.Nelson i R. Šif, Novi Sad 2004.
• J. Bjalostocki, Povjest umjetnosti i humanističke znanosti, Zagreb 1988.
• F. Gerke, Kasna antika i rano hriššćanstvo, Novi Sad 1973.
• C. Mango, Byzantine Architecture, London 1976 (postoje i kasnija izdanja kao i izdanje na italijanskom jeziku).
• S. Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: from Diocletian to Suleyman the Magnificent, Yale University Press 2010.
• R. Mainstone, Hagia Sophia. Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church, London 1988.
• R. Ousterhout, Master Builders of Byzantium, Princeton 1999.
• Romanesque Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, ed. Kőnemann, Kőln 1997.
• C. Wilson, The Gothic Cathedral:The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530, Thames and Hudson, 1990. (više izdanja)
• Gothic Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, ed. Kőnemann, Kőln 1997.
• A. Doig, Lithurgy and Architecture: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages, Farnham, Burlington 2010 (poglavlja koja nisu obuhvaćena obaveznom literaturom).
• E. Baldwin Smith, Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages, Princeton 1956.
• I. Stevović, Vizantijska crkva: obrazovanje arhitektonske slike svetosti: preispitivanja, problematika i perspektive proučavanja vizantijske sakralne arhitekture, Beograd 2018.
• O. Špehar, Kasnoantička arhitektura i ritual. Centralni Balkan između istoka i zapada, Beograd 2019.
• J. Koder, Vizantijski svet: uvod u istorijsku geografiju istočnog Mediterana tokom vizantijske epohe, Beograd 2011.