DU2359 The beginnings of the architecture of medieval Central Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Aleš Flídr (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 18:00–19:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The beginnings of stone-build architecture in Moravia are dated to the 9. centrury and are associated with the court and clerical milieu of the Great Moravia. Archeological research from the 2. half of the 20. century revealed the rests of many buildings located at fortified settlements and manors both on the Moravian and Slovak side of the Carpat mountains. There has been achieved many new findings recently, that slightly changed our point of view on the oldest architecture in our country, some older findings were revised and above all still existing buildings dated to the period of Great Moravia were proved. First period of Moravian architecture is connected with the Carolingian building culture, transfered by the latin clerus from the Frankenland, later influenced by the Dalmatian, Italian and Byzantinian elements, which was connected with the mission of Cyril and Method in Great Moravia. Next to this the old tradition of wooden building still was present, possibly with some influences of former Roman architectural culture.
Learning outcomes
To describe the architectural evolution of the central Europe in the 9. century, distinguish different parts of medieval society with respect to ordering activities, to draw basic tendentions of the pre-romanic art in the wider context of Moravia and surrounding regions, identify archeological findings of the sacral buildings, reconstruct the former shape and look of distinguished buildings and to identify their origin and funkcion, to know most important localities od the medieval Europe
Syllabus
  • 1. Historieographie and terminology 2. Staré Město – fortress Veligrad hidden under thousand year-lasting settlement 3. Mikulčice are full of churches 4. Controversial Moravian localities and recent findings – St. Hypolit a Pohansko 5. Bratislava, Děvín, Nitra - traditional centres in Danube region 6. Old and new findings in Povážský Inovec - Ducové, Bojná a Nitrianská Blatnica 7. St. Margita in Kopčany – church which has grown extremelly old 8. Discreet after-Great Moravian period – Skalka, Trenčín a Kostolany 9. Czech basin between Frank Empire and Great Moravia 10. Architecture of Great Moravia in the european context
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Václav Richter, Die Anfänge der grossmährischen Architektur, Magna Moravia, Brno 1965.
  • Anežka Merhautová, Velkomoravská architektura, in: Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I/1, Praha 1984, s. 32-39.
  • Dalibor Prix, Stará Morava (796-907), in: Petr Kratochvíl (ed.), Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Tematická řada Architektura, Praha 2009, s. 7-13.
  • Josef Cibulka, Velkomoravský kostel v Modré u Velehradu a začátky křesťanství na Moravě, Monumenta archaeologica 7, Praha 1958.
  • Josef Poulík, Dvě velkomoravské rotundy v Mikulčicích, Praha 1963.
  • Josef Poulík, Mikulčice - pevnost a sídlo knížat velkomoravských, Praha 1975.
  • Vilém Hrubý, Staré Město – Velkomoravský Velehrad, Brno 1965.
  • Bořivoj Dostál, Břeclav-Pohansko. IV, Velkomoravský velmožský dvorec, Brno 1975.
  • Luděk Galuška, Uherské Hradiště-Sady – křesťanské centrum říše Velkomoravské, Brno 1996.
  • Pavel Kouřil (ed.), Velká Morava a počátky křesťanství, Brno 2014.
  • Pavel Kouřil (ed.), Cyrilometodějská misie a Evropa, Brno 2014
  • Alfried Wieczorek - Hans-Martin Hinz, Střed Evropa kolem roku 1000, Praha 2002. (obrázky jsou v příslušných svazcích v němčině)
  • Karol Pieta (red.), Nitra : príspevky k najstarším dejinám mesta, Nitra 1993.
  • Andrej Botek, Veľkomoravské kostoly na Slovensku a odraz ich tradície v neskoršom období. Bratislava 2014.
  • Jiří Macháček, Adéla Balcárková, Pavel Čáp, Petr Dresler, Antonín Přichystal, Renáta Přichystalová, Eliška Schuplerová a Vladimír Sládek, Velkomoravská rotunda z Pohanska u Břeclavi, Památky archeologické 105, 2014, č. 1, s. 87-153.
  • Jiří Macháček - Martin Wihoda (eds.), Pád Velké Moravy aneb Kdo byl pohřben v hrobu 153 na Pohansku u Břeclavi? Praha 2016.
Teaching methods
The course is taught in the form of lectures, special scholarly excursion will allow practical view on current state of the architecture of Great Moravia.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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