LJMedB17 Renaissance Latin Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Magdalena Wolf, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Nechutová, CSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
This course is an introduction into the history of Renaissance humanism. Being necessarily selective the aim is to offer snapshots of different aspects of humanism as a cultural and historical phenomenon, explaining its origin, nature, popularity, socio-political uses, religious dimensions etc. The course, divided into lectures and close readings of Latin texts, will follow a chronological order. For each seminar a short English language article should be read, which will be distributed beforehand, while the indicated Latin texts will be read only during the seminar as time allows for them.
Syllabus
  • Preliminary schedule and readings:
  • 1. Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI, Basileae 1552
  • 2. Joannes Boemus, Mores, leges et ritus omnium gentium, Lugduni 1561
  • 3. Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Romae 1555
  • 4. Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts. Proceedings of the Second COMERS Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996, ed. P. Binkley, Leiden, New York, Koln: Brill 1997
  • 5. Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Philadelphia 1971
Teaching methods
Seminars, class discussion, reading of selected Latin texts
Assessment methods
Credits will be given for active class participation, preparation of assigned readings, as well as translation of selected Latin sources.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: bloková výuka.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Spring 2014.
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