Postgraduate Course: Global Encounters in Medieval Art (HIAR11045)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | For centuries before the modern era, distant civilisations had engaged in the exchange of goods, artistic styles and ideas across vast expanses of land and sea. The multiple dialogues that thereby arose led to rich creative processes of transformation and appropriation. This course explores the global dimension of art in the Middle Ages, with a geographical scope spanning Europe, the Islamic world and China. It follows a broad chronological sequence and focuses on key moments and patterns of interaction, such as the role of pilgrimage as an artistic vector, the extensive commercial links that spanned the Indian Ocean in the 9th century, or the political unification of China with the eastern Islamic world under Mongol rule. The course thus offers a uniquely broad perspective on the visual culture of the Middle Ages. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
3,000 word essay |
| Feedback |
Marked and monitored essays are returned to students in individual feedback sessions
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- gain knowledge of decisive moments in the history of artistic exchange between Europe, the Middle East and Asia before 1500.
- learn to engage in critical reflection on the factors that led to such interactions.
- gain understanding of the interplay between archaeological, art-historical and written evidence.
- learn to engage critically with modern scholarship and with different methodological approaches.
- learn to make critical use of both textual and visual evidence
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.arthistory.ed.ac.uk |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Location will be confirmed in Handbook |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Yuthika Sharma
Tel:
Email: Yuthika.Sharma@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk |
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