Byzantine literature and culture

The course is divided into two sections:
1. Byzantine literature and culture from their origins to the year 1100:
- transgression from Antiquity to Byzantine times; political and economic circumstances in the Early Byzantine period; Byzantium and Arabs; Byzantium and the Slavs; the sunset and the iconoclastic period; the church and religious life; political-religious conflicts and the schism
- Early Byzantine literature; historiography and political thought, philosophical and theological literature, poetry of the early Byzantine period, the origination of the accentual verse
- Photios and the Byzantine humanism
- the most important characteristics and achievements of the Byzantine art

2. Byzantine literature and culture from the year 1100 up to 1453
- political and economic system of Greece in the High Middle Ages; Byzantium and Western Europe in the Middle Ages; Byzantium and the Crusade wars
- the Byzantine educational system, rhetoric and philology
- literature in the vernacular; high literature and the revival of Atticism in the High Middle Ages
- Byzantium, Turkish invasion and Islam; the fall of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire
- status and significance of the Byzantine culture in European history

Hunger, H. Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner I-II. München 1978. COBISS.SI-ID – 41085794
Baynes, N. H. – Moss, L. B. Byzantium. An Introduction to East Roman Civilization. Oxford 1961. COBISS.SI-ID - 17759842
Krumbacher, K. Geschichte der Byzantinischen Literatur. München 1897. COBISS.SI-ID – 33674850
Tatakis, V. Bizantinska srednjeveška misel, prev. V. Velkovrh-Bukilica. Celje 2001. COBISS.SI-ID – 110790400
Cameron, A. Byzantine matters. Princeton, 2014. COBISS.SI-ID – 55893858.
Ferluga, G. Bizantinska družba in država. Ljubljana, 1996. COBISS.SI-ID - 55963904
Mango, C. The Oxford History of Byzantium. Oxford, 2002, COBISS.SI-ID – 14560402.

Priporočena:
Beck, H.-G. Geschichte der byzantinische Volksliteratur. München 1971.
Cavallo, G., ur., L’ uomo byzantino, Roma-Bari 2005.
Impelizzeri, S. La letteratura bizantina da Constantino a Fozio. Milano 2002.
Lemerle, P. Le premier humanisme byzantin. Paris 1971.
Lilie, R.-J. Byzanz. Das zweite Rom. Berlin 2003.