106-213 Art, Ideology and Doctrine, 400-1000

Usually 25 points of first-year English

The subject will examine artistic developments in the context of a Christian intellectual, philosophical and theological framework, while at the same time focussing on the implementation and adaptation of late Classical and native European stylistic traditions to emergent Christian art. Each week the lecture will focus on an ideological or doctrinal issue, or on an interpretative strategy, and the related tutorial will examine how these work themselves out in the artistic tradition. The issues focussed on will include: the fourfold system of interpretation; Typology; Creation; Angelology; the Incarnation; the Virgin Birth; Redemption; the Harrowing of Hell; Primogeniture; Paradise; the Resurrection; Time and Eternity; the Trinity; the exodus; the Flood; and the Fall and Atonement; Sin and Evil, other similar related issues wil also be considered.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

• St Augustine, H Bettenson (trans), City of God. Penguin 1984.
• J Beckwith, Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Penguin 1986.
• P Brown, Authority and the Sacred. Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World. Cambridge 1997.
• P Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago 1982 or Cambridge 1997.
• J Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer (trans), The Medieval Imagination. Chicago 1982.
• B Muir, Ductus: An Introduction to the History of Western European Handwriting. Melbourne 2003.