Passion, Power, & Piety: The Voices of Byzantium (CLS-0109)

Spring 2024 · CLS 0109 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Evolution of Byzantine history and literature through the voices of the Byzantines themselves, in their histories, novels, hagiographies, the great heroic epic Digenes Akrites (the Two-Blood Border Lord), the amusing if somewhat ribald Amazing Tale of Quadrupeds, and others, from the 4th century AD to the end of the empire. How Byzantine literature draws from Greek, Roman, Christian, Near Eastern, Islamic, and Judaic influences to construct a new identity, a world view neither "Eastern" nor "Western" but rather a complex fusion.

Course codes: CLS-0109, CLS 0109, CLS0109, CLS-109, CLS 109, CLS109, HIST-0156, HIST 0156, HIST0156, HIST-156, HIST 156, HIST156

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