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

This subject may be included in a major in Classics or Classical Studies and Archaeology.

Usually 12.5 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 will also be considered.

• have learned how to frame and develop a cohesive and compelling argument;

• have learned how to plan a research project;

• have learned how to communicate the outcomes of their research in seminar presentations.

An essay of 2000 words 50% (due mid-semester) and a second essay of 2000 words 50% (due at the end of semester). Students are required to attend a minimum of 80 of classes in order to qualify to have their written work assessed.

• St Augustine, H Bettenson (trans), City of God. Penguin 1984.
• B Muir, MS Junius 1. (CD Rom).