- Docente: Max Victor David
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ANT/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History, preservation and enhancement of artistic and archaeological heritage and landscape (cod. 9218)
Learning outcomes
Lessons of this course provide the fundamental instruments for studying, within the field of archaeological science, the material culture and figurative tradition during the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD in the Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on intercultural influences and exchange.
Course contents
The course first of all deals with the problems related to the theory and practice of archaeological methods. The course is developed in three modules. The introductory module deals with the main stages of the history of the matter; the links and relationships between Archaeology of Late Antiquity, Christian Archeology and Medieval Archaeology are also highlighted. The decisive themes for the understanding of Late Antiquity are examined: chronological limits, internal chronological partitions, geographical space, relations between the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire, chronological extension of the Roman Empire. The value of keywords such as decline, transformation, innovation and continuity is explained. In the second institutional module about fifty monuments, artefacts and sites essential for the knowledge of Late Antiquity are presented. In the third monographic module, the themes relating to the archaeology of Mithraism and the mysteric religions in Late Antiquity are studied in depth. All the elements necessary for orientation in the material and virtual places of the research are provided at the same time.
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliography:
R. REMONDON, La crisi dell'Impero romano. Da Marco Aurelio ad Anastasio (Nuova Clio, 3), Milano, Mursia, 1975
G. A. MANSUELLI, La fine del mondo antico (Storia universale dell'arte), Torino, UTET, 1988
AA. VV., The archaeology of Mithraism. New finds and approaches to Mithras-worship, a cura di M.M. McCarthy e M. Egri, Lovanio – Parigi – Bristol (Babesch, 39), Peeters, 2020
Other publications (books and articles) will be discussed in every lesson of the course.
Teaching methods
Frontal and online lessons, conferences and visits.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Office hours
See the website of Max Victor David
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.