2023-24

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with a period in the history art that is situated in a particular time and place.  It also aims to acquaint them with the basic concepts and principles of art during the Baroque, with technical developments and with the relationship of Baroque art to history.

The course aims to introduce students to matters concerning the economic history of Byzantium.   
The course starts with a treatment of the passage from the economy of Late Antiquity to the medieval economy and its structures.  It then deals with sources of wealth in Byzantium, natural and human resources, the rural and urban economy, exchange, trade and markets and developments in coinage and Byzantine money.  The course ends with a comparison between the Byzantine economy and the economies of the states of the medieval west.  

The aim of the course is two-fold: It offers a compact and global overview of fundamental theoretical knowledge centering upon the manifold subject in psychology, the development of the individual. It also highlights the application of this knowledge, to facilitate the understanding and better handling of the individual during the vital periods of childhood and adolescence.

The course acquaints students with the various forms of contemporary rituals found in Greek folk culture and with the basic social and ideological parameters that inform the functioning and formation of these rituals.  It also gives them an understanding of the meaning of the evolution and of the handling of older forms of tradition and the ways in which these forms function.  The course also acquaints students with the functioning of phenomena, such as secularization, the introduction of cultural prototypes, folklorism and cultural globalization in practice, which it does through the use o