DEkSTR History of the Middle Ages

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.3. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Bohuslav Klíma, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Mihola, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jiří Mihola, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Kamil Štěpánek, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Acquiring and cavity of knowledge about political, social, economical and cultural development in the Middle Ages.
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire knowledge of historical processes, facts and phenomena. They will master the basic terminology of the field and will be able to characterize the key features of historical development. They will be orientated in historical literature.
Syllabus
  • General history Migration of nations and forming of early medieval Europe. Church and papacy, organization, administration, cloisters, crusades. Byzantium – continuity and new development lines, culture, fall of the Constantinople. Culture and economy of early medieval Europe. Franc Empire, Charles the Great, restoration of the western Empire. Early middle ages in central Europe, Renavacio imperii Romanorum. Arabic expansion, Islam, cultural and spiritual centers, reconquist. British islands, expansion of Normans. Towns and Universities, society and culture of the top medieval age. Saint Roman Empire in the top medieval age. Kievan Russia, Tataric attacks, Muscovite Russia. Polish – Lithuanian personal union. France of the top middle ages, hundred year’s war. Western and Eastern Europe of late Middle Ages, society, culture. Medieval history of the Czech lands Origins and development of Slavonic settlement of our country in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th century. Great Moravia – first state of the western Slavonians. Prince age (until the end of the 12th century). Material culture of the Czech Middle ages. Century of the last Premyslics. Luxembourgian Age. Husitian revolution. Iagelonic and Podebradian Age. Czech church in the middle ages. Nobility – development, position. Towns – origins, development, role and significance. Czech law in the middle age – essential law relics. Scholarship and culture. Moravia as the part of the Bohemian state.
Literature
    required literature
  • BĚLINA, Pavel. Dějiny zemí koruny české. 8. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2002, 328 s. ISBN 8071855030. info
  • BĚLINA, Pavel. Dějiny evropské civilizace. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 1997, 322 s. ISBN 8071851019. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, homeworks, reading.
Assessment methods
The subject is going to be finished by written and oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 40k.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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