HIS 3. History - Art History: A Methodology Lab Course

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HIS 3. History - Art History: A Methodology Lab Course
This course provides a showcase for how art historical and historical methodologies are merging in current and ground-breaking research of the pre-modern world. We will investigate historical sources that document the ritual function of medieval holy sites (f. ex. churches, synagogues, mosques) and their decoration, as well as administrative documentation, and examine how they resonate with the organization and decoration of inner spaces (walls, domes, screens, curtains) ritual furnishings (altars, minbars, Torah Ark doors, baptismal fonts) and vessels (f. ex. censers, candlesticks, chalices).  The course introduces students to new art historical research that uses anthropological approaches to images and embraces non-Christian religious cultures and focuses on the sensorial experience of a holy site or object when activated in the ritual. By focusing on phenomenological aspects of sacred architecture and decoration, f. ex. natural and artificial light (reflections on mosaics, stained glass, enamels, candles in front of cult images), sound and music (arrangements for reading, preaching, (antiphonal) singing, as well as scent (f. ex. diffusion of incense), the goal is to provide students with tools to reconstruct the strategies that architects, donors, and artists used to create experience of a sacred space for an audience. The geographical and temporal scope is set widely to address different ritual specificities and artistic/architectural styles as well changes in function and decoration across Europe including the Mediterranean basin and from Late Antiquity to the early Renaissance.

At the same time, students are familiarised once again with the techniques of historical work and the preparation of historical term papers.