PV1A303 Introduction to pre-modern history I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:40 Virtuální místnost
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! PV1A204 Introd.to pre-modern hist. I &&!NOWANY( PV1A204 Introd.to pre-modern hist. I )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
A factographic overview of the history of Europe between the 4th and the start of the 16th century to a high-school level.
Learning outcomes
Students will gain a basic understanding of Medieval European history to a high-school level, they will view the study of history as an issue of being acquainted with different types of sources, and as a result will be prepared for further courses on the history of the Middle Ages.
Syllabus
  • 1. From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (the character of the Late Antique Empire, the movement of nations, the origins of the Barbarian kingdom, the disintegration of the West Roman Empire, the church in the West, the origins of monasticism, the origins of Medieval culture)
  • 2. The Franconian Empire (sources, Merovingians, the Charlemagnes, the expansion of the Franconian Empire, the renewal of the Western Empire, the division of the Franconian Empire, the church in the Franconian Empire, the Carolingian renaissance); Great Moravia and its relationship with the Franconian Empire, the Byzantine missions, Great Moravian culture, the origins of the Přemyslids
  • 3. The disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and the origin of monarchies in Central Europe (sources, Hungarian and Viking raids, the issue of the ruling dynasties dying out – the development of the territories of France and Germany in mutual comparison, the Ottoman Empire, the origins and development of the Přemyslid, Piast and Arpad monarchies and their integration into the imperial structures, into a Christian Europe and into the structures of the Latin church, society and the economy during the princely era, the origins of Latin culture)
  • 4. The papacy, secular power and the issue of reform (sources, France, England, Roman-German Kingdom – the Holy Roman Empire, papacy and the lands beyond the Alps, monastic and papal church reforms, the struggle over the investiture and dominium mundi, the origins of the new monastic and knightly orders, the crusades; the Czech lands in the 11th-12th centuries – the origins of stable social, political and ecclesiastical structures)
  • 5. Late Medieval society – transformations and culture (the nobility, towns, changes in agriculture, universities, heresy, monastic and mendicant orders, the origins of centralized monarchies and city states)
  • 6. The Czech lands during the reign of the last Přemyslids (sources, the standing of Bohemians within the empire, the internal and external policies of the Přemyslid kings, social, economic and legal changes in the 13th century – the nobility, towns, changes in agriculture)
  • 7. Europe of the Late Middle Ages (sources, rivalry between European kingdoms and the differences in their development, the origins of diplomacy, the development of the estates, the papacy in Avignon, the schism and councils, the plague epidemic, stagnation of the economy, religious movements)
  • 8. The Czech lands during the reign of the Luxemburgs (sources, internal and external policies of the Luxemburg kings, acquiring the Roman crown and its impact on the standing of Bohemians within the empire, Prague as the residence of the Roman kings, the Luxemburg expansion into Lausitz and Silesia and the origins of the lands of the Bohemian Crown, raising Prague to the status of an archbishopric, the establishment of a university in Prague; national languages entering into literature and administration)
  • 9. The Czech Reformation and the Hussite Revolution (sources, the roots of the Czech Reformation, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, Jacob of Mies, the outbreak of the Hussite Revolution, the establishment of Tábor, the Orebites, anti-Hussite crusades, the rule of Sigismund Korybut, Žižka’s New Tábor – the origins of the Orphans’ Union, the dominance of the brotherhoods, Hussite expansion into the surrounding countries and the last crusades, negotiations with Sigismund and the church, the Compacts, the reign of Sigismund and Albert, the rise of the estates)
  • 10. Europe at the threshold of the Modern Age (sources, the rivalries between European kingdoms, new powers: Burgundy, the unification of Spain, the rise of the Habsburgs, Renaissance papacy, Ottoman expansion and the fall of Constantinople, the origins of ocean voyages, the invention of the printing machine, humanism and the Renaissance, the start of the Reformation)
  • 11. The Czech lands during the post-Lipany, Poděbrad and Jagellonian eras (sources, the political development of the Czech lands between the powers of the estates and the monarch, George of Poděbrady and Vladislav Jagellon’s conflict with Matthias Corvinus, the Personal Union of Bohemian and Hungary and the origins of the Habsburg Monarchy, legal dual belief, changes in Utraquism, the origins of the United Brethren and the first reverberations of the Reformation, the origins of humanism in the Czech lands)
Literature
  • ČORNEJ, Petr. Dějiny zemí Koruny české. 9. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2003, 315 s. ISBN 807185607X. info
  • ČORNEJ, Petr, Ivana ČORNEJOVÁ and František PARKAN. Dějepis pro gymnázia a střední školy. 2. vydání. Praha: SPN - pedagogické nakladatelství, 2009, 160 stran. ISBN 9788072354306. info
  • ČORNEJ, Petr. Dějiny evropské civilizace. 4., upr. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2002, 367 s. ISBN 8071854743. info
  • DRŠKA, Václav and Dana PICKOVÁ. Dějiny středověké Evropy. 1. vyd. Praha: Aleš Skřivan ml., 2004, 364 s. ISBN 8086493113. info
  • Historický atlas, Praha 2005
  • SEMOTANOVÁ, Eva, Jiří CAJTHAML, Roman BARON, Zdeněk BERAN, Ivan BIČÍK, Kateřina BOBKOVÁ, Zdeněk BOHÁČ, Jaroslav BOUBÍN, Pavel CIBULKA, Daniel DOLEŽAL, Eva DOLEŽALOVÁ, Dana DVOŘÁČKOVÁ-MALÁ, Ludmila FIALOVÁ, Rudolf FIŠER, Jiří FRIEDL, Jan GEBHART, Martin GOJDA, Jan HÁJEK, Miroslav HEROLD, Ladislav HLADKÝ, Milan HLAVAČKA, Mlada HOLÁ, Martin HOLÝ, Eva CHODĚJOVSKÁ, Pavel CHROMÝ, Dalibor JANIŠ, Leoš JELEČEK, Tomáš KLÍR, Petr KLUČINA, Jiří KOCIAN, Ludvík KOPAČKA, Božena KOPIČKOVÁ, Pavel KRAFL, František KUBŮ, Karel KUPKA, Lucie KUPKOVÁ, Pavel KŮRKA, Vojtěch KYNCL, Vlastislav LACINA, Markéta MARKOVÁ, Jiří MARTÍNEK, Václav MATOUŠEK, Zdeněk MĚŘÍNSKÝ, Jiří MIKULEC, Jan NĚMEČEK, Markéta NOVOTNÁ, Martina GREČENKOVÁ, Jaroslav PÁNEK, Jaroslav PODLISKA, Magdaléna POKORNÁ, Daniel POLAKOVIČ, Miloslav POLÍVKA, Aleš POŘÍZKA, Petr PROKŠ, Milan ŘEPA, Tomáš STERNECK, Zbyněk SVITÁK, Jaroslav ŠEBEK, Robert ŠIMŮNEK, František ŠMAHEL, Přemysl ŠTYCH, Dušan TŘEŠTÍK, Alice VELKOVÁ, Petr VOREL, Aleš VYSKOČIL, Jana WINKLEROVÁ, Petr ZAVŘEL, Jan ZELENKA, Zlatica ZUDOVÁ-LEŠKOVÁ, Josef ŽEMLIČKA, Bohuslav VEVERKA, Pavel SEEMANN, Tomáš JANATA, Růžena ZIMOVÁ, Josef BENÍŠEK, Jakub HAVLÍČEK, Michal HODEK, Hana KADLECOVÁ, Jana KNOBLOCHOVÁ, Jiří KREJČÍ, Arnošt MÜLLER, Veronika MYSLIVEČKOVÁ, Tereza PANTŮČKOVÁ, Ondřej POSPÍŠIL, Jan PROCHÁZKA, Petr SOUKUP, Pavel ZAHAJSKÝ, Marcela HAVELKOVÁ, Kateřina KŘOVÁKOVÁ, Václava HORČÁKOVÁ and Miroslava PAULOVÁ. Akademický atlas českých dějin (Academic Atlas of Czech History). Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2014, 559 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2182-3. info
Teaching methods
Lectures; reading and analysing selected historical documents translated into Czech.
Assessment methods
Written test (oral test for resits)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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