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Postgraduate Course: Global Encounters in Medieval Art (HIAR11045)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryFor 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed:
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. gain knowledge of decisive moments in the history of artistic exchange between Europe, the Middle East and Asia before 1500.
  2. learn to engage in critical reflection on the factors that led to such interactions.
  3. gain understanding of the interplay between archaeological, art-historical and written evidence.
  4. learn to engage critically with modern scholarship and with different methodological approaches.
  5. learn to make critical use of both textual and visual evidence
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.arthistory.ed.ac.uk
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Location will be confirmed in Handbook
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Tom Tolley
Tel: (0131 6)50 4115
Email: Tom.Tolley@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anna Johns
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
Email: Anna.Johns@ed.ac.uk
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