FF:ESA093 Courtly Culture - Course Information
ESA093 Courtly Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Lenka Lee, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Lenka Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:40 B2.43
- Prerequisites
- Students must be able to present and defend their own opinions and to accept constructive criticism and advice.
- 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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 20/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, N-HS)
- Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, N-OT) (2)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-EST_) (3)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-HS)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand the conception of courtly love to learn the history of research into courtly love (G. Paris, C.S. Lewis, J. Robertson, Don Monson) to become acquainted with the most important medieval and Renaissance authors of the courtly culture (Andreas Capellanus, G. Boccaccio, G. Chaucer, Guillaume de Poitiers).
- Learning outcomes
- After passing the course the student will be: - able to descibe the main charakters of courtly cultere - describe the treatise De Amore - write a typical coutry poem - describe chosen courtly literary work
- Syllabus
- The courtly love and courtly culture. The history of research into the phenomenon of courtly love.
- The phenomen of the troubadours.
- Andreas Capellanus - De amore (the 1st book of De amore). The most important essays about this treatise (Monson, Lewis, Robertson, Bowden, Ruhe).
- G. Chaucer -Troilus a Kriseida.
- Chretién de Troyes - Cligés.
- G. Boccaccio - Decameron.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- BENTON, John F. The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center. Speculum. 1961, vol. 36, no. 4, s. 551-591.
- Přátelé, přiléhavý složím vers : písně okcitánských trubadúrů. Edited by Jiří Holub - Josef Prokop. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2001, 279 s. ISBN 807203409X. info
- CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Troilus a Kriseida. Translated by Zdeněk Hron. Vyd. 1. v českém jazyce. Praha: BB art, 2001, 126 s. ISBN 8072574450. info
- ROUGEMONT, Denis de. Západ a láska. Edited by Michaela Jurovská. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kaligram, 2001, 341 s. ISBN 8071495549. info
- HUIZINGA, J. Podzim středověku. Translated by Gabriela Veselá. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1999, 675 s. ISBN 8086022269. info
- DUBY, Georges. Vznešené paní z 12. století. Edited by Jarmila Vojtová - Jitka Uhdeová, Translated by Růžena Ostrá. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Atlantis, 1999, 158 s. ISBN 80-7108-166-3. info
- CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES. Cligés : (román lásky a cti). Translated by Jiří Konůpek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1967, 219 s. URL info
- Vzdálený slavíkův zpěv : výbor z poezie trobadorů. Edited by Václav Černý, Translated by Gustav Francl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1963, 289 s. info
- ČERNÝ, Václav. Lid a literatura ve středověku, zvláště v románských zemích. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1958, 342 s. info
- LEWIS, C. S. The allegory of love : a study in medieval tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958, 378 p. info
- not specified
- KELLY, Douglas. Coutly Love in Perspektive: The Hierarchy of Love in Andreas Capellanus. Traditio. 1968, vol. 24, no. , s. 119-147.
- ČERNÝ, Václav. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti. 2, Podzim středověku a renesance. Edited by Otakar Mališ. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1998, 492 s. : i. ISBN 80-86022-30-7. info
- Teaching methods
- Every lecture requires homework preparation in reading the assigned study literature. After teacher's presentation of the general and particular features of the subject, students are guided to interpretation of the chosen extracts, and class discussions follow.
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, class discussion, homeworks, texts reading (in Czech and English language). Oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět není určen posluchačům oboru filmová věda.
Information on course enrolment limitations: posluchači bc. estetiky, kteří začali své studium před více než třemi semestry, musí mít splněnu postupovou zkoušku (ESAPZE), jinak si tento předmět nemohou zapsat. Pro ostatní obory není zápis omezen.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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