AT3008
AT3008
UK LEVEL 5
UK CREDITS: 15
US CREDITS: 3/0/3
(Updated Summer 2017)
PREREQUISITES: None
CATALOG The art and architecture of the medieval period in western Europe.
DESCRIPTION: From Hiberno-Saxon to Gothic.
RATIONALE: The course examines the nature of the sacred and the secular in the
art and architecture of Western Europe during the medieval period,
paying particular attention to ideologies of rule, the complex
relationship of church and state, the involvement of women in
spirituality and governance, and the development of sacred space.
METHOD OFTEACHING In congruence with the teaching and learning strategy of the
AND LEARNING: college, the following tools are used:
ASSESSMENT: Summative:
Essay (1500-2000 words) 50%
Final Examination (in class, comprehensive) 50%
Formative:
Essay 0
RECOMMENDED READING:
Duby, G. Art and Society in the Middle Ages. Malden, Ma: Wiley,
2000.
Ganz, David, tr. Einhard and Notker the Stammerer: Two Lives of
Charlemagne. New York: Penguin, 2008.
_____ Objects, Images, and the Word: Art in the Service of the
Liturgy. Princeton: Index of Christian Art, 2003.
Nelson, Robert S., ed. Seeing before and beyond the Renaissance:
seeing as others saw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000.
Panofsky, Erwin. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis
and its Art Treasures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
INDICATIVE MATERIAL:
SOFTWARE Word
REQUIREMENTS: