The course will be organised according to the following program:
a) Notions of itacistic reading of Greek and notes on the linguistic question of post-classical and medieval Greek;
b) Notes on the foundation of Constantinople and its early mythology;
c) The Justinian age: Procopius of Caesarea; the poetry;
d) The seventh century: Heraclius and the struggle against Persians and Arabs; George of Pisidia;
e) Iconoclasm;
f) Photios and the rebirth of culture in the 9th century;
g) Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: the De administrando imperio and the De ceremoniis aulae byzantinae;
h) The arrival of the Seljuk Turks: the battle of Mantzikert and Michael Attaleiates;
i) The Komnenian period: the work of Anna Comnena;
j) The novel: Theodore Prodromos;
k) The fourth crusade (1204): Niketas Choniates;
l) The era of the Palaiologos; hesychasm; the advance of the Ottoman Turks;
m) The fall of Byzantium in 1453 in historiography and popular songs; Byzance après Byzance