FF:PV1A346 Early Modern Age in the Czech - Course Information
PV1A346 History of the Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Bronislav Chocholáč, Dr. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Bronislav Chocholáč, Dr.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 B2.32, except Tue 16. 4.
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! HIAb07b Early Modern Age in the Czech )&&(! HIA108b Early Modern Age in the Czech )&&(! PV1A257 Early Modern Age in the Czech )&&! NOWANY ( HIAb07b Early Modern Age in the Czech , HIA108 History of the Early Modern Ag )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Auxiliary Historical Sciences (programme FF, B-PV_) (2)
- Course objectives
- The purpose is to interpret crucial moments, features and processes in the early modern history of Bohemian lands. This is achieved through analysis and interpretation of different types of documents from the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Learning outcomes
- Students shall be able to: Analyse and explicate different types of early modern documents (agreements between estates and sovereign, coronation acts, annals etc.); set the documents into a historical context; understand archaic terms; characterize explored phenomenons within the region of the Bohemian lands and compare them with a situation in other central-european countries; conceive the crucial events and transformations of the society in the early modern lands of the Bohemian Crown.
- Syllabus
- Introduction, periodization.
- Estates, estate political system, authentication of the Bohemian estates (The Electoral capitulation of Sigismund of Luxembourg).
- Nobility and (royal) towns (The St. Wenceslas agreement).
- Accession of the Habsburgs to the Bohemian throne (The Coronation act of Ferdinandus I.).
- Religious and confessional conditions in the Bohemian lands (The Decrees of the Bohemian brothers).
- Sovereign versus estates, critique of the reign, estate opposition (The Programme of the 1st estate revolt).
- Confessionalisation, the conflict in the House of Habsburg (The Majesty of Rudolf II.).
- Centralised state or confederation, Catholic or Reformed religion? (The Estates confederation act of 1619).
- Literature
- required literature
- TAPIÉ, Victor Lucien. Marie Terezie a Evropa : od baroka k osvícenství. Translated by Karel Kubiš - Vlasta Kubišová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 398 s. ISBN 8020406166. info
- EVANS, R. J. W. Rudolf II. a jeho svět : myšlenky a kultura ve střední Evropě 1576-1612. Translated by Miloš Calda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 382 s. ISBN 8020405909. info
- VÁLKA, Josef. Dějiny Moravy. Edited by Jaromír Kubíček. Vydání první. V Brně: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost, 1996, 275 stran. ISBN 8085048620. info
- MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích (1471-1526). Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 342 stran. ISBN 8020003002. info
- JANÁČEK, Josef. Doba předbělohorská : 1526-1547. Vyd. 2. Praha: Academia, 1971, 281 s. URL info
- POLIŠENSKÝ, Josef. Třicetiletá válka a evropské krize 17. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1970, 284 s. info
- recommended literature
- CATALANO, Alessandro. Zápas o svědomí. Kardinál Arnošt Vojtěch z Harrachu (1598-1667) a protireformace v Čechách. Boemia e la reconquista delle coscienze (Orig.). Transl.by Petr Maťa. Vyd. 1. Praha : NLN. 2008. 637 s.
- ENGLUND, Peter. Nepokojná léta : historie třicetileté války : Ofredsar : om den svenska stormaktstiden och en man i dess mitt (Orig.). Translated by Luděk Mandaus - Dagmar Hartlová. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2000, 679 s. : i. ISBN 80-7106-355-X. info
- MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích (1471-1526). Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 223 stran. ISBN 8020006990. info
- MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích (1471-1526). 3, Města. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1998, 387 s. ISBN 80-200-0629-X. info
- MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích (1471-1526). Praha: Academia, 1994, 230 stran. ISBN 8020003568. info
- JANÁČEK, Josef. Doba předbělohorská : 1526-1547. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1984, 359 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, discussions in lessons, group projects, homeworks, work with original sources.
- Assessment methods
- Written test combining the topics of lectures as well as of the recommended literature. Colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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