Week 9 (October 19-23)

 

Declining empire, 1025-1143

• The Turks [Shepard 692-727]
• In-class assignment #3. Military disaster and Comnenian recovery [Gregory 246-273; Shepard 583-646;Geanakoplos 29-30 (no. 11), 41-42 (no. 22), 52-53 (no. 30), 68-69 (no. 45), 104-105 (no. 74), 134 (no. 98 B), 140-141 (no. 103 A and B - Michael Psellus, Chronography), 158-161 (no. 116 A and B), 175-176 (nos. 126-127), 206-214 (nos. 150-151), 236-238 (no. 168 A and B), 262-263 (no. 187), 286-288 (no. 208), 358-362 (nos. 268-270 - Anna Comnena, Alexiad, on the arrival of the crusaders), 382 (no. 289), 402-403 (no. 302 A and B), 404-405 (no. 303), 406-407 (no. 305), 412-413 (no. 309)]
• Church, society and the Middle Byzantine art [Gregory 274-279; chapters by Paul Magdalino and Alice-Mary Talbot in Haldon]; visit the Church of St. Elias (now Atik Mustafa Camii in Istanbul); the monastery of Christ Pantokrator, founded by John II Comnenus in Constantinople; the Church of the Holy Apostles in Athens;  the Church of St. Luke in Phokis (Greece); the Church of Panagia Chalkeon in Thessaloniki;  the Nea Moni monastery in Chios (Greece), with a decoration scheme of the interior; the St. Sophia church in Ochrid (Macedonia); the Daphni monastery near Athens (Greece); the Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio in Palermo (Italy)