HIB0451 The Baroque Culture in Central Europe

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:30–14:05 K31
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in political, social and cultural history of Central Europe between 1600 and 1800; at least a basic knowledge of English and German.
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course, students will be able to: define several components of baroque culture; be aware of broader regional relations of selected aspects of baroque culture; understand baroque culture as a complex of the cultural-historical phenomenons (in the conception of the baroque era as a "Gesamtkunstwerk"); reflect on baroque culture in the multidisciplinary approach.
Syllabus
  • Post-Tridentine Arts and confessions. Art as a confessional expression. Aspects of the „Counter-Reformation“ in the art around 1600;
  • Representation I: Aristocracy, bishops and towns around 1600 – the ways and means of their representation, representation of an office and kin, the role of a confession;
  • Representation II.: Nobility in the 17th and 18th centuries – the ways and means of their representation;
  • The landscape of baroque: Inner and outer landscape (microcosmos – macrocosmos); new forms of shaping the landscape and space (sacral and secular); features of space;
  • Baroque death and salvation: basic conception, arts, representation. Funeral sermons, gravestones and epitaphs, music;
  • Religious imagination: Eschatology and its early modern conception. Representation of the four last things (the ways of meditation, psychology of perception). Purgatory, passions and Post-Tridentine imagination;
  • Elite and popular culture (visual arts, music, social practice);
  • „Profane“ imagination: myths and legends (nobility, towns), historicism;
  • Religion and community: Post-Tridentine religious brotherhoods.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Hersche, Peter: Muße und Verschwendung : europäische Gesellschaft und Kultur im Barockzeitalter. 1-2. Freiburg: Herder 2006.
  • O’Malley, John W.: Trent and all that: renaming Catholicism in the early modern era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University 2000.
  • Hsia, Ronnie Po-chia: The world of Catholic renewal, 1540-1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Forster, Marc R.: Catholic revival in the age of the baroque: religious identity in southwest Germany, 1550-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001.
  • Burke, Peter: Lidová kultura v raně novověké Evropě. Praha: Argo 2005.
  • Jakubec, O. - Elbel, M. - Perůtka, M. (eds.): Olomoucké baroko. Výtvarná kultura let 1620–1780. I-III. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc 2010-2011.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions.
Assessment methods
Written essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
General note: Kurs probíhá v rámci projektu č. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0237 Inovace studia historie na FF MU, který je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
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