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ARTD 3014/ARTD 7015G: Across Byzantium: Arts and Architectures of Empire: Module 5

Major Assignments this Module

1. Final Paper Draft due 11/11

2. Extra Credit due 11/16

2. Paper writing workshop 11/18

3. Final Paper Due 12/7

Module 5: The Fall… Rise… and Fall of Constantinople

Thursday 11/11: The 4th Crusade

Major assignments due:

  1. Email paper draft to your group in preparation for the paper writing workshop. Be sure to cc Prof. Carroll on these emails.

Read/watch before class:

Tuesday 11/16: Byzantium and Venice

Major assignments due:

1. Extra credit due at 11:59 PM by email

Read/watch before class:

Thursday 11/18: Paper Writing Workshop

Read/watch before class:

  1. Review the paper editing rubric (before editing your classmates’ papers)

Major assignments due:

  1. Read your group members’ papers and come to class prepared with feedback for each member of your group

Tuesday 11/23: Norman Sicily

Major assignments due: none

Read/watch before class:

Thursday 11/25: NO CLASS

Tuesday 11/30: Late Byzantine Art

Major assignments due: none

Read/watch before class:

Thursday 12/2: The Ottoman Empire

Major assignments due:

  1. None

 

Read/watch before class:

Tuesday 12/7: Byzantium Today

Read/watch before class:

1. None

Major assignments due:

1. Final paper due

Optional Resources: Module 5

Fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire by 1203: This video should gives an overview of the dire situation the empire was in before the Fourth Crusade ever arrived in Constantinople. The Eastern Roman Empire was in a state of unrelenting decline and was bracking apart by the time the Fourth Crusade arrived at Constantinople in 1203. Foreign conquest and break away states were often a result of the total failure of the imperial government to deal with the issues the provinces had, be they abuses by local magnates or foreign incursions. Many local magnets started to rule in their own right to deal with the issues that the Angeloi dynasty did not.