Courses for 2012/2013

CourseInstructorCredits
Academic Field Trip Seminar
During this course students get familiar with the history and cultural heritage of the region to be visited (in 2013: Austria and South Tirol in Italy) and prepare short essays for the field trip booklet, on ...
2
Academic Writing for Medievalists I
This course is designed to provide a “working” review of the standards and expectations of the Medieval Studies Department as regards the skills of academic writing, development of research topics, and the documentation of sources. During ...
2
Advanced Latin Text Seminar: Bonaventure
The medieval philosophical Latin reading class this year focuses on the close reading and commentary of two important works of Bonaventure OFM (Giovanni Fidanza of Bagnoregio, 1221 – 1274), probably the most ...
2
Advanced Ottoman Textual Skills
The course will enable students to handle Ottoman Turkish ornate prose as well as to introduce them to Ottoman manuscripts and archival material. Aside from linguistic skills, we will also concentrate on imagery, rhetoric, as well as on ...
  • Ferenc Csirkes
4
CC tutorial: Crisis and Destruction in Medieval Western and Central Europe
Tutorial: accompanying Crisis and Destruction in Medieval Western and Central Europe Tutorial: accompanying CC: Crisis and Destruction in Medieval Western and Central Europe   Week 1: Introduction: Crisis – ...
2
CC: Crisis and Destruction in Medieval Western and Central Europe
This course provides an overview of the social and economic history of medieval Western and Central Europe from a particular negative viewpoint. The instructors are aware that throughout the Middle Ages (as in any other period) crises and ...
2
CC: History of Material Culture
Recent developments in historical research reflect an increasing interest in the field of material culture. This interest has moved away from dealing with isolated and de-contextualized objects and artefacts used by people in the past which ...
2
CC: Mystics, Visionaries, Stigmatics. Living Saints in the Later Middle Ages
This seminar and the related tutorial will address a conspicuous phenomenon of late medieval Christianity: the growing popularity and the spontaneous cult, already in their life of those figures, who claimed to have had a direct contact with ...
2
CC: The Ottomans and Europeans in the Early Modern Era
This is a draft of the syllabus. Readings will be posted on the e-learning.ceu.hu website Through a variety of primary sources and secondary literature this core class will explore the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and ...
2
CC: The Rise of Rome
The class will focus on the rise of Roman rule over the Mediterranean and the foundation of the Roman empire (c. 220BCE-120CE). Special attention will be paid to military history (including discussion of battle field archaeology and ...
2
Climatic and Environmental Impacts in European History
The conceptional framework for this course is based on the impacts of climate and environment on human society for the past 2000 years, from Late Antiquity to modern historical times. Such studies require a ...
2
Clone of Medieval Heritage of Budapest (2013)
In recent years, the situation with regard to cultural heritage issues in Budapest has become exceedingly complex due to a host of factors: there are the continuing historical and political aspects, the ...
1
Complex Middle Ages: New Methods for the Reconstruction of Spatial and Social Entanglements in Premodern Societies (HGIS and Network Analysis)
In this course, two essential methods of digital spatial and/or social analysis on the basis of medieval and pre-modern source material will be introduced and evaluates: Historical Geographical Information ...
1
Digital Text for the Mediaevalist
The computer is playing an increasingly important part in scholarly research, and mediaevalists have in many instances been at the forefront in exploiting its possibilities for their work. It is however a ...
2
Empires (Topical Survey II)
Empires have been a prominent feature of world history. This Topical Survey course encourages participants to take an interest in longue-durée historical processes, illuminating the ancient and medieval models and roots of modern imperialism ...
2
Ethnic Identities in the Early Middle Ages
Students will become familiar with the problems of the study of ethnic identity, develop a critical attitude towards different interpretations, they will learn about the ways in which today theories about ...
1
FLorence: the Laboratory of the Renaissance. Culture, Institutions, Representations
The present course completes my previous courses on the European and the East-Central European Renaissance by looking at Florence, the emblematic "birthplace" of that epoch. Since Florentine society, politics, and culture between ...
2
From Renovatio Imperii to ‘Twilight of Empire’: The Last Centuries of Byzantium (c.1204–1462)
The late Byzantine or ‘Palaiologan’ period – as it is commonly dubbed after the then ruling dynasty, the Palaiologos clan – is still the ‘fledgling’ of the Byzantine millennium; unlike trendy ‘late antiquity’ ...
4
Greek palaeography & Byzantine manuscript studies
Manuscripts matter: For classical philologists, medieval manuscripts remain the primary source upon which the study of ancient literature is ultimately based. In particular, successful and objective textual ...
4
Gregory Palamas and his adversaries
The course offers an analysis of the great theological controversy which emerged in the midst of political turmoil in mid-fourteenth-century Byzantium (1341-1351). It is sometimes called "the Hesychast debate" (after a special form ...
2
Historical Traumas: Cultures of Defeat, Complaint and Memory in East Central Europe
The course aims at offering a comparative overview on a complex phenomenon by examining its appearances and representations from various disciplinary approaches. Historical traumas are understood as complex ...
2
History on film / Film on History – Medieval and Renaissance Themes
Film studies has been gaining an increasing share and popularity among the disciplines of the humanities. Films are in many ways connected with historical studies; historical films represent history, at the ...
2
Independent Study 2012 Fall
For medieval students only; students read important works in their area of interest in consultation with their advisors. The amount of reading will vary with the number of credits students enroll for. PhD ...		2
Independent Study 2013 Winter
For medieval students only; students read important works in their area of interest in consultation with their advisors. The amount of reading will vary with the number of credits students enroll for. PhD ...		2
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies
The course aims to provide students with an overview of historiographical and methodological lessons that will shed light the interdisciplinary character of medieval studies. For this purpose the variety of constituting disciplines – ...
2
Introduction to Research Resources for Medievalists
The course intends to introduce new medievalist students to the research resources offered by CEU in general and the Department of Medieval Studies in particular, with a view of other libraries in Budapest. It incorporates most of the ...
2
Late Antique & Byzantine Text Seminars
The Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Text Seminar, a standing institution of the Medieval Studies/The Eastern Mediterranean from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent curriculum, invites ...
2
Late Antique and Medieval Science (5th-15th c.)
The aim of the course is fourfold. Firstly, it gives a general introduction to the notion of ancient, Late Antique and medieval science and considers the way in which it differs from our modern understanding ...
Latin Beginner I
Learning Outcomes: -The ability to analyze primary source materials, i.e., to select relevant primary source material and read it in the source language with an awareness of the linguistic and cultural ...
4
Latin Intermediate I: An Introduction to the Bible in Latin
Learning Outcomes: -The ability to analyze primary source materials, i.e., to select relevant primary source material and read it in the source language with an awareness of the linguistic and cultural ...
2