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1 U n i v e r s i t y o f C r e t e F a c u l t y o f L e t t e r s D e p a r t m e n t o f H i s t o r y & A r c h a e o l o g y D e s c r i p t i o n o f C o u r s e s S p r i n g S e m e s t e r R e t h y m n o, F e b r u a r y

2 U N D E R G R A D U A T E C O U R S E S (Spring Semester ) Section of Ancient and Medieval History Byzantine History (VIS) VIS 504 Demetrios Kyritses The Crusades (Lecture course) 5 ECTS -Defining the Crusade. Ideological and theological foundations. The time frame of the crusading movement. The Crusades in the modern and contemporary world: historiography and public perceptions. -Europe, Byzantium and Islam on the eve of the First Crusade. -The First Crusade -Byzantium and the Crusaders. Relations until the Fourth Crusade. -The crusader states: character, political and social organization, everyday life. -The Muslim backlash. - The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople. -The evolution of the crusading movement. The Northern crusades. Crusades against heretics and political opponents. The later crusades. VIS 354 Demetrios Kyritses Coins and seals as sources for Byzantine history (Seminar) 10 ECTS The seminar aims at an introduction to Byzantine coins and seals, and a presentation of how the analysis of these objects can be a source of information and lead to conclusions. There will be a familiarization with the main collections, the form of publication, research and bibliography, The course will also include exercises of recognition and commenting. 2

3 Section of Modern and Contemporary History Modern and Contemporary History (INCH) INCH 359 Efi Avdela Gender and citizenship in Europe, 19 th -20 th c. (Seminar) 10 ECTS What is citizenship and what makes it what it is? It is commonly accepted in scholarly literature that the historical formation of citizenship is linked to specific exclusions. This seminar focuses on gender and its relation to the civic, political and social rights that constitute citizenship. On this ground it will examine the forms that the long exclusion of women from the status of citizen, and particularly from political rights, took in specific countries as well as the collective actions for its revocation. Students assessment will be based on short essays, on a larger bibliographical essay and on active participation in the classroom. INCH 380 Efi Avdela History of social movements (Seminar) 10 ECTS Social movements are forms of organized social protest and, in this capacity, constitute important ingredients of social and political life in contemporary societies. This seminar will approach social movements as historical products, varying through time and across places, and in connection to demands, forms of organization and action as well as themes, means, and effects. The seminar will examine a wide range of social movements from nineteenth and twentieth century, in Greece and abroad, particularly their content and form, through the analysis of a number of case studies. Students assessment will be based on short essays, on a larger bibliographical essay and on active participation in the classroom. Students competent in English will have precedence. 3

4 Section of Oriental and African Studies Turkish Studies (ΤΟΥ) ΤΟΥ 286 Antonis Anastasopoulos Gender in the Ottoman Empire (Lecture course) 5 ECTS Course summary The aim of this course is to study the social roles of men and women in the Ottoman Empire and to familiarize students with recent historiographical approaches in the study of gender and women. In the course of the spring semester, we will cover the issue of gender at the levels of Ottoman society, the imperial palace and the state apparatus. Furthermore, we will examine how foreign observers understood the social roles of men and women in the Ottoman Empire through the prism of orientalism. Finally, we will discuss the changes that were brought about by modernization in the nineteenth century, as well as the ideal of the modern woman put forward by the early Turkish Republic. Course structure Week 1: Introduction terms and methodology Week 2: Islamic law and gender Week 3: Marriage, family, divorce, adultery, child custody Week 4: The waqf institution Week 5: Economic life Week 6: Non-Muslim communities Week 7: Slavery Week 8: The palace, the state, the army: i. men Week 9: The palace, the state, the army: ii. women Week 10: Sexuality and morals images of men and women in Ottoman art and literature Week 11: Western observers of women in the Ottoman Empire Orientalism Ottoman observers of women in the West Week 12: The late Ottoman Empire Week 13: The early Turkish Republic Recommended literature Suraiya FAROQHI, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, London & New York, 2001 Halil İNALCIK, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, , trans. Norman Itzkowitz & Colin Imber, London, 1973 Donald QUATAERT, The Ottoman Empire, , Cambridge, 2001 Amila BUTUROVIĆ and İrvin CEMİL SCHİCK (eds), Women in the Ottoman Balkans, London & New York, 2007 Leslie PEIRCE, Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, Berkeley, 2003 Amira El-Azhary SONBOL (ed.), Beyond the Exotic: Women s Histories in Islamic Societies, Syracuse,

5 TOY 109 Elias Kolovos Introduction to the History of the Ottoman Empire, (L) 5 ECTS Course summary The lecture will introduce first year students to the long history of the Ottoman Empire, between The Ottoman Empire was one of the important political entities outside the Western World during the early modern centuries. Ottoman legacies have still effects for the peoples of the Balkans and parts of Central Europe and the Middle East. The lectures will include short histories of: the origins of the Ottomans in the 14 th century; the years of the expansion and the formation of the empire during the 15 th and 16 th centuries; the transformations after the end of the expansion during the 17 th and the 18 th centuries; the age of the reforms, aiming at the modernization of the state during the 19 th century; finally, of the collapse of the Empire after World War I and its succession by the Republic of Turkey. Selective Bibliography Barkey, Karen, Empire of difference : the Ottomans in comparative perspective / Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 [DR531 B ] Faroqhi, Suraiya, The Ottoman Empire and the world around it / London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2004 [DR486.F ]. Finkel, Caroline, Osman's dream : the story of the Ottoman Empire, / London : John Murray, 2005[DR486.F ]. Zürcher, Erik Jan, Turkey : a modern history / London : New York : I. B. Tauris, 1998 [DR577.Z ]. Goffman, Daniel, The Ottoman Empire and early modern Europe / Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 [DR486.G ]. İnalcik, Halil, The Ottoman Empire : the classical age, / London ; : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973 [Institute for Mediterranean Studies Menage V.L. DR486.I5 1973] Quataert, Donald, The Ottoman Empire, / Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001 [University of Crete Library DR485 Q ]. TOY 310 Elias Kolovos Ottoman Rural Societies and Economies (S) 10 ECTS Course summary The seminar will start with reviewing the historiography on Ottoman peasants and rural life. Afterwards, we will discuss on the longue durée of the rural economies in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the conjecture of climate change during the Ottoman centuries. Finally, we will focus on the study of the social and political relations in the rural countryside, with a special emphasis on the issue of landholding during the Ottoman centuries. The seminar has a double aim: to familiarize the students with the methodology of research on Ottoman peasant history and with the relevant sources. The students will have to read and present critically sources for every meeting of the seminar and work on a final paper on a topic concerning the history of the Ottoman rural societies and economies. 5

6 Selective bibliography Adanır, Fikret, The Ottoman Peasantries, c c.1860 in Tom Scott (ed.), The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, London New York 1998, p [UOC Library HD P4] Ασδραχάς, Σπύρος Ι., με τη συνεργασία των Ν. Ε. Καραπιδάκη, Όλγας Κατσιαρδή- Hering, Ευτυχίας Δ. Λιάτα, Άννας Ματθαίου, Michel Sivignon, Traian Stoianovich, Ελληνική Οικονομική Ιστορία, ιε -ιθ αιώνας, 2 τ., Αθήνα 2003 [HC295.A863] Faroqhi, Suraiya, Ottoman Peasants and Rural Life: the Historiography of the Twentieth Century, Archivum Ottomanicum, 18 (2000), [Library - Periodicals] İnalcık, Halil - Donald Quataert (επιμ.), Οικονομική και κοινωνική ιστορία της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας, τ. Α : , Αθήνα 2008 και τ. Β : , Αθήνα 2011 [Library, Reference Books HC492 E29516 (R)] İnalcık, Halil, The Emergence of Big Farms, Çiftliks: State, Landlords, and Tenants in Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont and Paul Dumont (eds.), Contributions à l histoire économique et sociale de l Empire ottoman, Λουβέν, 1983, [Institute for Mediterranean Studies HC492.C648] Islamoglu-Inan, Huri, State and peasant in the Ottoman Empire: agrarian power relations and regional economic development in Ottoman Anatolia during the sixteenth century, Leiden - New York : E.J. Brill, 1994 [Library HD1537.T9 I84] Mikhail, Alan, Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history, Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011[GF711.M55] Singer, Amy, Palestinian peasants and Ottoman officials: rural administration around sixteenth-century Jerusalem, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] - New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994 [HD1537.J4 S56] Tabak, Faruk, The waning of the Mediterranean, : a geohistorical approach, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 [GF541.T23] White, Sam, The climate of rebellion in the early modern Ottoman Empire, New York Cambridge University Press, 2011 [QC903.2 T87 W44] 6

7 Laboratory courses EM001 Alexandros Maridakis Basic Computing Skills (Introduction to ICT) Laboratory course for groups of first-year undergraduate students (up to 30 people). The course consists of 4 lessons/classes which will be repeated 3 times during each semester, so that all first-year students will be able to attend it (approximately 90 students per semester). EM002 Ariadne Gazi Internet & Humanities: Historical background- Website Categories - Assessment methods - Online research tools Laboratory course for groups of first-year undergraduate students (up to 30 people). The course consists of 4 lessons/classes which will be repeated 3 times during each semester, so that all first-year students will be able to attend it (approximately 90 students per semester). Each 3-hour lesson is offered once a week and consists of two parts, a theoretical and a practical one (for the latter the Computer-Lab of the Faculty of Letters will be used).] 7