FF:HIAK108b Early Modern Age in the Czech - Course Information
HIAK108b History of the Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 7/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Bronislav Chocholáč, Dr. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová - Timetable
- Fri 21. 11. 9:10–12:25 zrusena A22 stara, Fri 5. 12. 13:20–15:45 zrusena A22 stara
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- History (programme FF, B-HI)
- Course objectives
- Students are supposed to be able: Analyse and explicate different types of early modern documents (agreements between estates and sovereign, coronation acts, annals etc.); set the documents into a historical context; understand archaic terms; characterize explored phenomenons within the region of the Bohemian lands and compare them with a situation in other central-european countries; conceive the crucial events and transformations of the society in the early modern lands of the Bohemian Crown.
- Syllabus
- Introduction, periodization.
- Estates, estate political system, authentication of estates (The Electoral capitulation of Sigismund of Luxembourg).
- Nobility and (royal) towns (The St. Wenceslas agreement).
- Accession of the Habsburgs to the Bohemian throne (The Coronation act of Ferdinandus I.).
- Religious and confessional conditions in the Bohemian lands (The Decrees of the Bohemian brothers).
- Sovereign versus estates, critique of the reign, estate opposition (The Programme of the 1st estate revolt).
- Confessionalisation, the conflict in the House of Habsburg (The Majesty of Rudolf II.).
- Centralised state or confederation, catholic or reformed religion? (The Estates confederation act of 1619).
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, discussions in lessons, group projects, homeworks, work with original sources. Conclusion: written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught only once.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 7 hodin konzultací.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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