HSY2960

Imagining Europe: representations and images of a continent

(ART)

David Garrioch, Barbara Caine and others

8 points + Two lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibition: EUR2010/3010

Synopsis: Classical notions of Europa and the medieval idea of Christendom. Through the study of literature, painting, architecture, travellers' tales, cinema and other sources, it traces the development of the idea of Europe as a region defined both geographically and by its culture. The idea of multiple Europes: 'Eastern Europe', regions within Europe, and images of Eastern and Western Europe as politically distinct entities. The re-emergence of the idea of 'Central Europe'.

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