| FW-50183-10 | Research Programs: Teaching Development Fellowships | William Linden North | Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 711-1453 | 3/1/2011 - 7/31/2011 | $21,000.00 | William | Linden | North | | | | Carleton College | Northfield | MN | 55057-4001 | USA | 2010 | European History | Teaching Development Fellowships | Research Programs | 21000 | 0 | 21000 | 0 |
I seek a "Teaching Development Fellowship" in order to revise Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 711-1453, an intermediate-level history course I teach at Carleton College. Through close study of written and visual evidence, students in the course examine several aspects of this complex culture and polity: the nature and function of imperial rule, Byzantine aesthetics, Byzantium's ethnic and religious diversity, its relations with the Latin West and the Muslim world. In my project, I will read recent scholarship on the Byzantine world, conduct archival research at the Dumbarton Oaks research center (Washington, DC), translate critical primary sources in Greek and Latin, and make a study trip to key sites in the eastern Mediterranean. This work will allow me to add new content in two crucial areas of my course: 1) the artistic and architectural dimensions of Byzantine culture; and 2) the complex, changing, and sometimes tragic encounters between Byzantium and its Latin and Muslim neighbors. |