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has completed the following course:
Change of Era: The Origins of Christian Culture through the Lens of Archaeology
Learners engaged with the following topics: - The origins of Christian culture - The image of a new culture - Constantine and the birth of monumental Christian architecture - Religion and politics in the Early Christian Mediterranean
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Alejandra Chavarria Arnau
Professor of Medieval Archeology
University of Padova
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Learning outcomes
- Create a sensibility for cultural heritage, particularly archaeological sites and material culture through a better understanding of their nature and meaning
- Explore how innovative scientific methodologies are adding vital information about the past to traditional christian archaeology
- Interpret christian artefacts within their precise historical context and meaning.
- Investigate the connections and causations between different historical events
- Reflect on the meaning of churches in urban and rural contexts–why they were built and what their function was in antiquity
Syllabus
- The origins of Christian iconography and the cult of martyrs
- The funerary realm in early Christianity
- Building Christianity: Constructing holy places and the Christianisation of space
- Politics and Christianity: the cradle of Europe
Issued on 20th December 2022
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