Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300 (U03984)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : ACE-3-U03984

The City of Rome encapsulates the history and development of the Latin West. This course aims to give students an understanding and awareness of a living city and its influence throughout the medieval West as it evolved during the thousand-year period which elapsed between the pagan Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity and the removal of the papacy to Avignon.
Medieval Rome preserved but also transformed the legacy of the ancient world, turning antique buildings into churches and imposing on them new meanings and importance. The imperial heritage, ritual and public space, religious and secular architecture, mosaics, frescoes, icons and sculpture will be examined in their historical and intellectual contexts.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : A pass in either History of Art 2 or Architectural History 2a and 2b

Subject Areas

Home subject area

History of Art, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	15:00	15:50	Central

? Additional Class Information : As well as the lecture (times above) there will be two seminars on Thursdays. One from 1400-1550 and the other from 1610-1800. Students will be required to attend one of these.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- Knowledge of art and architecture produced in Rome over a thousand years, and understanding of their multiple meanings, function, use and reception.
- Familiarity with the interplay between archaeological, art-historical and written evidence
- Understanding of the transformation of a city over a long period
- Understanding of the rôle of modern copies in the study of medieval works of art (in particular on the basis of the first-hand analysis of copies of medieval Roman mosaics at the National Galleries of Scotland)
- Critical use of both textual and visual evidence
- Critical engagement with modern scholarship and with different methodological approaches
- Connoisseurship: visual and analytical skills to provide an approximate date for an early medieval work of art and to understand its original function and context (in case of a loose fragment), and to date and attribute a late medieval work to an artist/workshop.