16 – NEW – The Art of the Crusades
On campus
Course 16 – Summer School on campus
Monday 7 – Friday 11 July 2025
Dr George Bartlett
£645
Course description
The crusades – the military occupation of the Holy Land by Western European Christians in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – led to one of the great periods of cultural exchange in the Medieval period.
Here, Western crusaders encountered Orthodox Byzantine and Muslim cultures in a site deemed holy to all the major religions of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Examining everything from maps and buildings to icons, manuscripts, mosaics and metalwork we will explore the unique and fascinating art produced in this melting pot of different religions, ethnicities and cultures. Throughout the course we will probe the issues at play when studying the art of the crusades, including the concepts of colonialism, hybridity, attribution, and authorship. During afternoon visits, we will have opportunity to see crusader art in the collection of the British Museum, and explore London’s own version of the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple Church.
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Lecturer's biography
Dr George Bartlett is an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld, where he teaches on Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine art. George completed his PhD in Art History at the University of Sussex in 2020, with a thesis on Christ’s naming inscriptions in Byzantine art and taught there on the BA and MA programmes. Since 2019 George has contributed to The Courtauld’s Summer School, with courses on medieval mosaics and on the transition from pagan to Christian art in late antiquity and has recently also worked at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.