UKR4010

Literature and society in Kievan Rus

(ART)

M Pavlyshyn

6 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: Any RUS, SLA or UKR major + Prohibition: UKR3010

Synopsis: Literary texts (epics, sermons, hagiography, apocrypha, patericons, chronicles) are studied in the original and in parallel translation into modern Ukrainian or Russian, depending on the student's disciplinary background. Texts are examined in the context of medieval East Slavic religious and courtly culture, with special reference to the visual arts (icon, mosaic, architecture), and in the context of social and political change from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

Assessment: Examinations (1.5 hours): 40% Essay (2000 words): 40% + Class paper (to be written up in 1000 words): 20% + Fourth-year students will choose from a list of essays requiring more advanced analytic skills than third-year students