PAPVB_06 Introduction to the history of architecture on the Near East

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Král (lecturer), Mgr. Inna Mateiciucová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Valášková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 14:10–17:25 zruseno D21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lectures introduce learner to the basic knowledge of the architecture development in the ancient Orient region, especially in the Mesopotamia. The attention will be paid not only to the development of the European research of architecture’s origins, but also to the way of architectonic tradition’s interactions in the region. The development of particular architectonic elements of palace, religious, secular, and funeral architecture will be displayed from historical perspective. Others courses will take up the course after it. They will deal already with some specific topics – e.g. the beginning of urbanism in the Near East.
Syllabus
  • 1. Prehistory Near East and the beginnings of the architecture 2. Architecture of ancient Mesopotamia (Palaces, Temples, Houses, Tombs) 3. Architecture of ancient Syro-Palestine (Palaces, Temples, Houses, Tombs)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Cooper, L. Early Urbanism On The Syrian Euphrates, London 2006
  • Orthmann, W (ed.). Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte Band 14: Das alte Orient, Berlin 1975
  • Heinrich, E. Die Tempel und Heiligtümer im alten Mesopotamien, Berlin – New York 1982
  • Heinrich, E. Die Palaste im alten Mesopotamien, Berlin – New York 1984
  • Joffe, A. Settlement and Society in the Early Bronze Age I and II Southern Levant: Complementarity and Contradiction in a Small-Scale Complex Society (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 4), Shefield 1993
  • MATTHEWS, Roger. The archaeology of Mesopotamia : theories and approaches. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2003, x, 253. ISBN 9780415253161. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Dalibor. Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyklopedie starověkého Předního východu (Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Ancient Near East). Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Brno: Česká společnost pro studium náboženství, 1999, vol. 7, No 2, p. 215-217. ISSN 1210-3640. info
  • FRANKFORT, H. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. New York, 1969. info
Teaching methods
presentations
Assessment methods
writenn test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017.
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