Courses for the Advanced Certificate in Eastern Mediterranean Studies 2016-2017
Mandatory Courses
Fall Term
MEDS CC -- Texts and Communities (Bernard)
MEDS CC -- Global Comparisons: Russia and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1839/in the Early Modern Period (Krstic, Hannings)
Winter Term
MEDS CC -- Early Christianity (Gereby, Menze)
MEDS CC -- The "Seventeenth-century Crisis" in Comparative Perspective (Borekci)
Elective Courses
Fall Term
HIME TS -- Empires (Esmer. Bernard)
MEDS -- Bible for Medievalists (Gereby)
MEDS -- Medieval Architecture (Szakacs)
MEDS -- Eastern Christians in the Ottoman Empire, 14th-18th Centuries (Krstic)
MEDS -- Politics, philosophy, theology and the art of writing in the Roman Empire in the fifth-sixth centuries (Perczel)
MEDS -- Crusades – Ideology and Practice (11th–13th century) (Ziemann)
HIST -- Advanced Arabic Source Reading in Historiography (Al-Bagdadi)
HIST -- Everyday Life History In Empire and Beyond (Esmer)
HIST -- Foundations I: Religion and State (Al-Azmeh)
HIST -- Foundations II: Religion and Secularism - Comparative Perspectives (Al-Bagdadi)
HIST -- From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Political History of Modern Turkey (Wilson)
ATRS – Greek: Hagiographic and historiographic texts from the 6th-7th centuries (Cyril of Scythopolis, John Moschus, Procopius and Evagrius Scholasticus) (1 cr) (Perczel)
ATRS – Life, Love, and Death in Latin Inscriptions (1 cr) (Gaspar)
Winter Term
HIME -- Historiography II: Grand Debates on Issues of the History of Mediterranean (Wilson)
MEDS -- Byzantine Art and the West (Szakacs)
MEDS -- Examining the Theatocracy: Drama and Politics in the Ancient World (White)
MEDS -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: The History of a Literary Fiction from the Fifth to the Thirteenth Century in East and West (Perczel)
MEDS -- Ancient Atomism and its Critics (White)
HIST -- Orthodox Traditions in the East of Europe and Beyond (4cr) (Dmitriev)
HIST -- The Early Modern Habsburg Monarchy: Dynastic Agglomeration, Composite Monarchy, Fiscal-Military State (4 cr) (Mata)
HIST -- Divine Love in Religious History (Wilke)
HIST -- The Middle East in the Age of Nationalism & Imperialism (1798 -1922) (4 cr) (Papuccular)
ATRS – Greek/Syriac: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, excerpts from the Corpus (1cr) (Perczel)
ATRS – Greek: Byzantine Liturgical Poetry: The Early Hymnographers (1cr) (Bernard)
N.B. Please note that you can substitute elective classes with language courses according to your needs and approved by your supervisor!