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Change of Era: The Origins of Christian Culture through the Lens of Archaeology by Futurelearn
Learn about innovative approaches to the study of early Christianity and discover its role in a crucial period of history.
Course Highlights
- Create a sensibility for cultural heritage, particularly archaeological sites and material culture through a better understanding of their nature and meaning
- Explore how innovative scientific methodologies are adding vital information about the past to traditional christian archaeology
- Interpret christian artefacts within their precise historical context and meaning.
- Investigate the connections and causations between different historical events
- Reflect on the meaning of churches in urban and rural contexts–why they were built and what their function was in antiquity
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
3 Topics
In the beginning
Representing the Gospels
Synthesis
4 Topics
The making of a new Christian culture
Death memory and salvation
Martyrs and relics
Christian cemeteries
3 Topics
What do we know of churches before Constantine?
Divine symbols
The churches built by Constantine
4 Topics
The end of the Western Empire and the new western world
Diverse Christianities
Conquest religion and architecture in the sixth century Mediterranean
Final synthesis
Change of Era: The Origins of Christian Culture through the Lens of Archaeology
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