Week 12 (November 9-13)

From second-rate power to civil war, 1282-1354

• Andronicus II and the rise of the Ottoman state [Gregory 298-306; Geanakoplos 375-376 (no. 284), 420-421 (no. 316)]
• Wednesday, November 11: Veteran's Day (no classes)
• Civil war, plague, Hesychasm, and collapse [Gregory 306-315; Geanakoplos 55-56 (no. 33), 82-84 (no. 54), 84-85 (no. 55), 109 (no. 78), 111 (no. 80), 150 (no. 109), 162-163 (no. 117), 182-186 (nos. 132-134); 270-272 (no. 194), 385-386 (no. 292)]; see also selected readings on Hesychasm; see also the portrait of Theodore Metochites dedicated the Monastery of the Chora (a mosaic in the Karyie Camii in Istanbul); visit also the Monastery of the Virgin Pammakaristos (Fethiye Camii, with an enormous mosaic of Christ Pantocrator in the main dome), where Michael Glabas Tarchaniotes is buried; see also an example of the illuminated manuscripts produced in the convent of St. Andrew at Krisis (founded by Theodora Raoulaina); the first page of the manuscript containing Maximos Planoudes's translation of Dicta Catonis from Latin into Greek; visit Mistra (especially the church of Hodigitria and the Church of the Virgin Peribleptos)