Byzantium and the Baltic Sea: Urban Interfaces and Maritime Relations in Medieval Europe
Course, Master's level, 5AR409
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Spring 2027 Spring 2027, Flexible, 50%, Distance learning, English
- Location
- Flexible
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- Distance learning
- Number of mandatory on-campus meetings
- 0
- Number of optional on-campus meetings
- 0
- Instructional time
- Mixed
- Study period
- 18 January 2027–24 March 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university.
- Selection
-
Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)
- Fees
- If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 14,250
- Total tuition fee: SEK 14,250
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2026
- Application code
- UU-00135
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About the course
This course explores Byzantium and large towns from the East Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea in a comparative and
diachronic perspective during the Medieval period. Common to these towns is that they are built on maritime relations and
that they, as nodes in larger sea-based networks, develop their own urban lifeworlds and interfaces. The purpose of this
course is to study and compare the development of these urban environments and their diverse cultural expressions in
material, visual, and textual sources. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the course problematises the social and spatial
dynamics of these towns, their structural elements, cultural and economic exchanges, as well as their significance as
nodes in larger networks. The course will also examine medieval towns as cultural heritage; and as modern and
contemporary reception in arts and popular culture, conservation and historiography.