Week 15 (November 30-December 4)

 

Byzantium after Byzantium

• In-class assignment #5
• Imperial political heritage in Eastern Europe [Gregory 340-346; Shepard 872-880]; see Filofei on Moscow as the third Rome
• Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine art [Gregory 346-357]; visit the Lips monastery (Fenari Isa Camii) in Constantinople, the Church of Panagia Parigoritissa in Arta (Greece), the Church of the Holy Apostles in Thessaloniki, the Church of Bogorodica Periblepta in Ohrid (Macedonia, with its recessed sawtooth brick bands), the Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid, the Church of the Mother of God Ljeviska in Prizren (Kosovo, Serbia), Church of the Pantokrator of the Decani Monastery in Serbia (with the inscription above the portal and King Stefan Uros III's coffin, as well as the dynastic tree of the Nemanjid dynasty), the church of the Panatanassa Monastery in Mistra, the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the Monastery of the Trinity-Saint Sergius in Russia; see also the icon of the doubting of Thomas at the Meteora Monastery.