Methodology of Medieval Art History

Pre-requisites: Prerequisites for attending graduate (master’s degree) programme are prescribed by the Statute of the Faculty of Philosophy.

Course objectives: Introducing students to some methodological approaches and qualifying students to use them in independent scientific research in the field of Medieval Art History.

Course description: Methodological bases of research and interpretation of Medieval Art (characteristics of some methods, their potential and limitations). A critical look at the historiography of Medieval Art and the types of scientific papers. A review of the methodology of related scientific disciplines on which the scientific study of Medieval Art relies (History, Archaeology, Diplomatics, Chronology, Palaeography, Sigillography, Numismatics, History of Medieval Literature, etc.).

Learning Outcomes: Having attended the course and having fulfilled all its obligations with regard to examination, the student will master the methods of research, interpretation and presentation of the Medieval Art History works.

Literature/Reading:

• The Art of Art History. A critical anthology, ed. by D. Preziosi, Oxford - New York 1998 (series: Oxford history of art)
• H. L. Kessler, Seeing medieval art, Peterborough-Orchard Park 2004
• H. L. Kessler, On the State of Medieval Art History, Art Bulletin LXX, 2 (June 1988), 166-187
• G. I. Vzdornov, Restavratsiia i nauka: ocherki po istorii otkrytiia i izucheniia drevnerusskoĭ zhivopisi, Moskva 2006
• V. J. Đurić, O naučnom radu na istoriji umetnosti i još ponečemu, Sveske X, 18 (1987), 21-26
• Medieval studies: an introduction, ed. J. M. Powell, Syracuse, N.Y., 1976
• M. Koen - E. Najgel, Uvod u logiku i naučni metod, Beograd 1965
• E. Panovski, Umetnost i značenje. Ikonološke studije, Beograd 1975
• Reading medieval images: the art historian and the object, ed. E. Sears and Th. K. Thomas, Ann Arbor 2002