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2020/21 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
ARTF5012M The Margins of Medieval Art
30 creditsClass Size: 15
Module manager: Dr Eva Frojmovic
Email: E.Frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2020/21
Pre-requisite qualifications
Good BA hons degreeThis module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
By the end of this module, students should have studied in-depth significant ways in which medieval Christian art constructed images of its external (Muslim, African) as well as internal (Jewish) Others, of social outcasts and imagined monsters.Students should:
- be able to analyse how social, religious and ethnic difference is constructed through art, and be able to link such constructions with medieval theology, social and economic thought;
- have gained an understanding of how images of Others as were deployed to cope with social change;
- have gained an understanding of how some marginalised groups could resist and adapt the dominant discourse of Christian art in their own art making.
Skills outcomes
- Skills necessary to undertake higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in an area of professional practice
- Evaluating own achievement and that of others
- Self-direction and effective decision-making
- Independent learning
- Use of methodologies and theoretical resources
Syllabus
On this module we will explore how difference (social, ethnic, religious / Jews, Muslims and Africans, heretics, peasants, social outcasts) was conceptualised and visualised in medieval art and thought.
While much traditional medieval art history conveniently glosses over such sites of conflict, this module will emphasise the ways in which the arts of the Western, Christian Middle Ages marginalised certain groups while endorsing a hierarchical society led (at least in theory) by the Church, thereby fixing medieval Western identities.
The module will cover marginal 'grotesques' in manuscripts and their subversive potential; the christianisation of ancient traditions about monsters and marvels at the edges of the world; art in the service of the crusade ideal (with its sharpening of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim representations).
Last but not least, the marginalised Jewish other will be given a voice through the study of Jewish art making in medieval Christendom and Islam.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Seminar | 10 | 3.00 | 30.00 |
| Private study hours | 270.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300.00 | ||
Private study
- 165 hours class preparation including researching textual and visual materials/ reading/ preparation- 40 hours presentation preparation
- 65 hours essay preparation
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
- student presentations- attendance at seminars
- participation in class discussions.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 7,000 word essay (inc footnotes and bibliography) | 100.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
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