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107-012 Visualising Beliefs: Christianity in Cultural Transition | |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Geoffrey Jenkins |
Prerequisites | Usually 12.5 points of first year Classics and Archaeology see Prerequisites |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This course studies the origins of the art, archaeology and architecture of early Christianity and the impact of Constantine on Christian beliefs and their various expressions in the fourth and fifth centuries. The intention is to discover how the emerging dogmatic consensus expressed itself in architecture, art and archaeological artefact. In this process will be seen the final transformation of Christianity from Jewish sectarian movement into profoundly hellenised state religion. |
Assessment | A tutorial presentation of 1000 words, and an essay of 2000 words, and a take-home test of 1000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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