LJMedB26 Medieval itineracy to the other world

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Mazalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 K23
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
In this course, the students will gain knowledge about the most accentuated topics of the European medieval eschatology (written mostly in Latin) - visions, navigations to the Other world (navigationes), propheties, Antichrists, the dance of the death (Totentanz), the art of dying (ars moriendi), heaven, hell, purgatory, apocalyptic expectations. The students will deal not only with various content of medieval ideas but thanks to the translation also with various form of presentation - with Latin texts (translated into Czech) and particulary with vernacular texts; the students will recognize also moving of these texts through the medieval Europe and mutual relationships which influenced next generations.
Learning outcomes
After this course, the student will be able to: have an orientation in basic topics of the European medieval eschatology - at the level of content and relationships between the texts.
Syllabus
  • Chapter I: "He was taken from his body and lay without the soul and soon, he rose again and told what was happen with him..." - visions, auditions and revelations (visiones, auditiones, revelationes) - from the theory of dreams and simple Christian moralistics to collections of visions and political appeal; symbolism and development of particular aspects; Gregorius Magnus, vision of St. Barontus, vision of Jiřík, individualist Otlohus Ratisbonensis, mystic Hildegarda de Bingen, Brigitta de Swecia etc.
  • Chapter II: Navigation of St. Brendanus and Irish travelling to the Promised Land of Saints
  • Chapter III: prophecies (prophetia) - tales about the last emperor (Sibylla Tiburtina, Pseudo-Methodius) and the end of the world (Pseudo-Ephrem); prophecy of Jacobus de Tharamo, Rupescissa´s Vaticinium, Opus arduum of Lollards; content, transmission and influence of prophecies
  • Kapitola IV: Antichrists (Antichristi) - Augustinus and the tract De duabus civitatibus of Oto von Freising; the adaptation of Adso´s letter and its connection with prophecies; De periculis novissimorum temporum; Wyclif
  • Chapter V: the dance of the death (Totentanz), haeven, hell, purgatory
  • Chapter VI: manual how to die or else medieval "ars moriendi" in text and in painting - from "Tractatus artis bene moriendi" to anonymous texts
  • Chapter VII: apokalyptic and waiting for the end of the ages - the Taborites
Literature
  • McGinn, Bernard. The Apocalyptic Imagination in the Middle Ages. In: Ende und Vollendung: eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter. Hrsg. von J. A. Aertsen, M. Pickavé. Berlin 2002, s. 79-94. ISBN 3-11-017214-3.
  • JOYCE, E. Scribal Performance and Identity in the Autobiographical Visions of Otloh of St. Emmeram (d. 1067). Essays in Medieval Studies, 2005, vol. 22, no. 1, s. 95–106. ISSN 1043-2213.
  • LEGOFF, J. Zrození očistce. Přel. V. Dvořáková. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003. ISBN 80-7021- 637-9.
  • ALEXANDER, P. J. Byzantium and the Migration of Literary Works and Motifs. Medievalia et Humanistica, 1971, 2, s. 47–68. ISSN 0076-6127.
  • Ráj, peklo a očistec ve středověkých viděních. Edited by Magdalena Moravová - Jana Engelbrechtová - Martin Nodl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2011, 279 s. ISBN 9788025705438. info
  • Bájné plavby do jiných světů. Edited by Magdalena Moravová, Translated by Eva Hladká-Kučerňáková - Danie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2010, 178 s. ISBN 9788025703656. info
  • MCGINN, Bernard. Antichrist : two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, xxi, 369. ISBN 0231119771. info
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
final colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019.
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