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

It is advisable that the student has followed the course LGLOR1521.

In-depth study of the history of the Christian Orient in the Byzantine and Oriental worlds.

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.

At the end of this course, the student will be familiar with a rigorous scientific approach to the textual sources and questions specific to the history of the oriental Christian communities He will be capable of undertaking a research of limited dimensions into one historical aspect of the oriental Christian communities, and to present his conclusions orally.

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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