AES_106 Textile production in the Primeval Era and Early to High Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Helena Březinová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 12:00–15:40 M12
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in chronology and material culture of prehistory, Early and High Middle Ages
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 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is intended to familiarize the students with source materials, textile-making processes, textile manufacturing tools, and the preserved products. The lectures are primarily aimed at the territory of Bohemia and Moravia, although finds from other parts of Europe (and/or other parts of the world) will be presented in the form of analogies and references.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course, student will be able to:
- orient oneself in basic specialised terminology of textile production
- understand basic principles of textile production
- orient oneself in specialised literature
- identify and describe individual types of archaeological textile in various find contexts
- know the most important localities with textile finds in the Czech Republic
Syllabus
  • Theoretical lectures including Power Point presentations of pictures are divided into three blocks:
  • 1) Prehistory;
  • 2) Early to High Middle Ages in rural and urban milieus;
  • 3) Early to High Middle Ages in the milieu of social elites.
  • The lectures are aimed at textile raw materials, textile manufacturing equipment, fabric structures, fashion of the period, organization of production and trade, an overview of the textiles preserved up to now, written and pictorial sources, and a summarization of hitherto research on historical development of textile production.
  • The second part of each of the above blocks consists in a seminar with a practical demonstration of working processes, demonstration of individual types of textile finds and the preserved finished products, information on the documentation of historical textile, the fundamentals of conservation, depository storage, and visits to museum displays exhibiting historical textiles.
  • The seminars will take place in a lecture room (blocks 1, 2) and at the Prague Castle (block 3).
  • The aim of the lectures is not only to provide theoretical information to the students of the term instruction, but also to prepare them in such a way that as archaeologists, employees of museum or offices for the preservation of historical monuments they are capable of collecting historical textile in a proper manner, carrying out a general interpretation and documentation, organizing its conservation and technological examination, determining the conditions for its preservation, and carrying out a qualified surveillance.
Literature
    required literature
  • BŘEZINOVÁ, Helena, David KOHOUT, Milena BRAVERMANOVÁ, Vendulka OTAVSKÁ and Michaela SELMI WALLISOVÁ. Medieval textile and dyeing technologies :an assemblage of textile fragments from waste layers in Prague's New Town. Vydání první. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, v.v.i., 2016, 461 stran. ISBN 9788087365915. info
  • BŘEZINOVÁ, Helena. Textilní výroba v českých zemích ve 13.-15. století : poznání textilní produkce na základě archeologických nálezů. Edited by Jan Klápště - Zdeněk Měřínský. Praha: Ústav pro pravěk a ranou dobu dějinnou, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, 2007, 167 s. ISBN 807308144X. URL info
  • Moravské zemské muzeum (Brno). Etnografický ústav and Akademie věd ČR (Praha : 1993-). Národopisná společnost. Lidový textil a textilní sbírky v muzeích : sborník k životnímu jubileu PhDr. Miroslavy Ludvíkové, CSc. Edited by Lenka [etnoložka] Nováková. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 1998, 28 s. ISBN 80-7028-126-X. info
  • KOSTELNÍKOVÁ, Marie. Slovanský textil na Moravě. 1971, 227 s. info
  • KRÁL, Jaroslav. Pravěký textil a slovanský textil podle nálezů v Moravském museu v Brně. 1953, 269 s. info
    recommended literature
  • PŘICHYSTALOVÁ, Renáta and Helena BŘEZINOVÁ. Rekonstrukce organizace textilní výroby (nejen) na Pohansku u Břeclavi v podmínkách raného středověku (Management reconstruction of the textile production (not only) at Pohansko near Břeclav in conditions of the early Middle Ages). In Textil v muzeu/ Nejstarší textilní sbírky muzeí a galerií pohledem archeologie i historie. 2017. URL info
  • BŘEZINOVÁ, Helena, David KOHOUT, Milena BRAVERMANOVÁ, Vendulka OTAVSKÁ and Michaela SELMI WALLISOVÁ. Medieval textile and dyeing technologies :an assemblage of textile fragments from waste layers in Prague's New Town. Vydání první. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, v.v.i., 2016, 461 stran. ISBN 9788087365915. info
  • VYKOUKOVÁ, Jitka, Helena BŘEZINOVÁ, Marek FIKRLE, Jaroslav FRÁNA, Miroslav KRÁLÍK, Michal LUTOVSKÝ, Alena SAMOHÝLOVÁ and Lubor SMEJTEK. Náramky z Turska-Těšiny: Několik pohledů na unikátní šperk únětické kultury (Bracelets from Tursko-Těšina: Several Perspectives on Unique Únětice Culture Jewellery). Archeologie ve středních Čechách. 2007, vol. 11, -, p. 205-225. ISSN 1214-3553. info
  • BRAVERMANOVÁ, Milena and Michal LUTOVSKÝ. Hroby, hrobky a pohřebiště českých knížat a králů. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2001, 295 s. ISBN 8072770497. info
  • KOSTELNÍKOVÁ, Marie. Slovanský textil na Moravě. 1972, 237 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: První přednáška již v orientačním týdnu, tj. 14. 9. 2022.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2024.
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