FF:ARTS010 History of Mongolia and steppe - Course Information
ARTS010 History of Mongolia and steppe empires
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 8:00–9:40 J31, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- Prerequisites
- ! PROGRAM(B-VIE_ ) || (PROGRAM(B-VIE_ ) && ( ARTS001 Cognitive Sciences || ARTS002 Approaches to language || ARTS003 Contemporary culture || ARTS004 Homer and European literature || ARTS005 Life in cyberspace || ARTS006 The Fall of an Empire || ARTS007 Germanic literatureNobel Prize || ARTS008 Argumentation and Logic || ARTS009 Czech 101 || ARTS011 Transformations of Christian Europe: Visions, Critical Analysis and Discussions || ARTS012 Cult. Constr. of Other. || ARTS013 Slavonic Areas || ARTS014 How to read World Literature. || ARTS015 Humans as a cultural species || ARTS016 Medieval Literary Life || ARTS017 Life after Death in Arts || ARTS018 || ARTS019 Shakespeare: Art and Virtue || ARTS020 Digital Humanities || ARTS021 Art and Culture in Cent.Europe || ARTS022 Transformations of the stories ))
no requirements - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 63/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150 - Course objectives
- The main goal of this course is knowledge of chronologies and particularities in historical development of steppe empires of Inner Asia, including Mongolian period and Manchu expansion. The course is based on regular research stays in Asia, on grant projects and regular publications. Lectures are accommpanied with commentaries of original sources, own photographs, sharing of personal experience from fieldwork and (simultaneously translated) presentations of invited academic guests from Mongolia and other Asian countries.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course a student will
- know the basic chronology of steppe empires and their political peculiarities
- orientate herself/himself in the historical geography
- be able to comment distribution and relations of ethnic groups
- know cultural development and religions of Inner Asia
- know the basic sources to the steppe empires, Mongolia and Inner Asia - Syllabus
- 1) Geography and prehistory of steppe areas and Inner Asia - a summary of archaeological evidence and new genetic analyses
- 2) Xiongnu Empire and following states in the steppe areas and non-Chinese dynasties in North China and Tarim Basin till 500 AD
- 3) Tocharian and Iranian states in Xinjiang (Turfan, Kuča, Khotan) and in the west from Pamir (Bactria, Chwarezm)
- 4) Expansion of Turkic and Uyghur Kaganates
- 5) Religion in multi-ethnic areas of Central Asia and its spreading along the Silk Road
- 6) Early Tibetan history and Tibetan expansion into Central Asia
- 7) Development at the North-East borders of the Imperial China (Manchuria, Korea)
- 8) Kitans, Jurchen, Tanguts (Xixia)
- 9) Ethnogenesis of the Mongols, their expansion and formation of the Mongol empire
- 10) Dividing of Mongol Empire, fragmentation of power among the members od Dayan Khan’s family, support of Buddhism in 16th and 17th centuries and later development of Mongolian khanates
- 11) Manchu expansion and rule in China, Sinization of Manchu population
- 12) Traditional tributary relations, authority of power and forms of submission in Inner Asia; transformation of the state structure in the 19th and 20th century
- Literature
- required literature
- SRBA, Ondřej and Michal SCHWARZ. Dějiny Mongolska. Vydání první. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2015. 464 stran.
- Tajná kronika Mongolů. Vyd. 1. Prah: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1955. 279 s.
- recommended literature
- Putování k Mongolům [1247] : Cesta Jana de Plano Carpiniho ke dvoru Kujuk-Chána (Obsaž.) : Cesta Viléma z Rubruku ke dvoru Mangu-Chána (Obsaž.) : Poselstvo k Tamerlánovi (Obsaž.). Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1964.
- GROLLOVÁ, Ivana and Veronika ZIKMUNDOVÁ. Mongolové : pravnuci Čingischána. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2001. 231 s.
- The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age. Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank and Peter B. Golden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- The Cambridge history of Early Inner Asia. Edited by Denis Sinor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Teaching methods
- lectures with presentation of photographs and original literary sources
- Assessment methods
- final written test focused on basic chronology - at least 50 % of correct answers is needed to pass the course
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- ARTS003 On current issues of contemporary culture, especially music and theater
! PROGRAM(B-VH_ ) || ( PROGRAM(B-VH_ ) && (ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS004 || ARTS005 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS020 || ARTS021 || ARTS022)) - ARTS006 The Fall of an Empire or the Rise of Europe?
!NOWANY(CORE007) && !CORE007 && !program(B-DU_)||(program(B-DU_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS020 || ARTS021)) - ARTS009 Czech 101
!CORE023&&(!program(B-CJ_)||(program(B-CJ_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS020 || ARTS021))) - ARTS012 Cultural Construction of Otherness
!program(B-ET_)||(program(B-ET_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS020 || ARTS021)) - ARTS013 Slavonic Areas
!program(B-JBS_)||(program(B-JBS_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS020 || ARTS021)) - ARTS019 Shakespeare: Art and Virtue
!program(B-EST_)||(program(B-EST_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS020 || ARTS021)) - ARTS020 Digital Humanities
!program(B-ISK_)||(program(B-ISK_)&&(ARTS001 || ARTS002 || ARTS003 || ARTS004 || ARTS006 || ARTS007 || ARTS008 || ARTS009 || ARTS010 || ARTS011 || ARTS012 || ARTS013 || ARTS014 || ARTS015 || ARTS016 || ARTS017 || ARTS018 || ARTS019 || ARTS021 || ARTS022))
- ARTS003 On current issues of contemporary culture, especially music and theater
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2024/ARTS010