Teaching will consist of a weekly seminar on problems of theory and method of current importance to the study of ancient history, approached through specific...

Sources and Methods in Ancient History (HIST0402)

Teaching will consist of a weekly seminar on problems of theory and method of current importance to the study of ancient history, approached through specific research topics. Options include fields such as: social anthropology, historiography, archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, and textual criticism. Students will be asked to choose two topics among those proposed, and will write essays on them; this is meant to help students in refining their methodological approaches and use of sources for their dissertations. The seminar involves ancient historians from all the institutions participating in the Intercollegiate degree (UCL, King's College, RHUL and the ICS).

This module will explore the diverse artistic and religious cultures that enriched and enlivened medieval Jerusalem, with a particular emphasis on works...

Imagining Jerusalem in the Middle Ages (HART0162)

This module will explore the diverse artistic and religious cultures that enriched and enlivened medieval Jerusalem, with a particular emphasis on works created or recreated between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. As well as investigating key sites in Jerusalem itself, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount complex, students will explore the ways in which Jerusalem was understood and imagined beyond its physical borders, through such phenomena as mappae mundi, relics, architectural replicas and apocalyptic imagery. Taking a geographically decentred approach to the study of medieval art, the module will introduce students to the aesthetic and intellectual networks running between Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It will open a window onto relations between different religious and ethnic groups in the region. Finally, it will reflect on the modern legacies of medieval efforts to represent Jerusalem.