HIST 80G – Travelers to Byzantium
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2024
Instructor: Dimiter Angelov
Meeting Time: W 12:45pm – 2:45pm
This seminar is based on the fascinating firsthand accounts of travelers who visited Constantinople and other areas of Byzantine world. The texts will generate questions for discussion and research on a wide range of issues, such as Byzantine civilization, cross-cultural contacts in the Middle Ages, the practice and experience of travel, and the interrelationship of travel, ethnography, and politics. Sources will be chosen from among the works of western, Islamic, Jewish, and Russian travelers.
Class Notes: This course meets the “Pre-1750” History Concentration requirement.
For more details please visit the Harvard Course Catalog.