History and Society of Byzantium and the Christian East II [ LGLOR2522 ]

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It is advisable that the student has followed the course LGLOR 1521.

Alternately with LGLOR2521, this course deals, based on textual sources, with a series of themes connected with the important historical periods of the Christian communities of the Orient and the Caucasus. Particular attention will be paid to the most important works relative to the subject.

Approfondissement de la connaissance de l'histoire de l'Orient chrétien dans l'espace byzantin et oriental. Au terme de ce cours, l'étudiant se sera familiarisé à une approche scientifique rigoureuse des sources textuelles et de questions spécifiques à l'histoire des communautés chrétiennes orientales. Il sera à même de rédiger un travail de recherche de dimensions limitées sur un aspect historique des communautés chrétiennes de l'Orient, et d'en présenter oralement les résultats.

Evaluation is continuous. The students are marked on the work of synthesis and its oral presentation.

Large extracts of the texts concerned will be read and commented on in the course.

The students will be expected to read the monographs and articles that accompany the course (in French, in English, or, if necessary, in other languages), and to study a specific theme, to be presented both orally and in a written synthesis.

According to the year, the themes studied can be :

- national consolidation and the co-existence of the eastern communities with Islam (as from the VIIth century);
- eastern Christianity in contact with the new conquerors: Seleucids, Crusaders, Mongols (XIth-XVth centuries);
- the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia;
- the Georgian kingdom under the Bagratides;
- the contacts of the eastern churches with the Vatican;
- the Armenian diaspora in the east and west;
- Nor-Djoulfa and the commercial network of the Armenians between Iran, India and Europe.

The bibliography and the textual sources will be given in the course.

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