HIB045b The Moravian countryside between the enlightenment and abolition of serfdom

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Drozda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Martin Drozda, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • History (programme FF, B-HI_) (3)
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to acquaint the students with the basic development tendencies affecting the life of people in the Moravian countryside from the 1770s to 1848. The focus of the course is reading and subsequent interpretation of Czech written (or printed) sources. The seminar is designed as various chapters from rural history, combining an introductory lecture on the given topic and a subsequent demonstration of the issue on specific sources. Students will gain a basic overview of the Enlightenment reforms carried out during the reigns of Maria Theresa and Joseph II, which affected life in the countryside, and will be able to apply this information when interpreting sources from this period.
Learning outcomes
Based on the topics discussed, students will gain a basic insight into the structure and functioning of the Moravian village in the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, including the labor system, the Raabs reform, the history of agriculture and the functioning of the village self-government.
Syllabus
  • Sources
  • The social structure of the village
  • Holding a farm
  • Rural population
  • Agriculture and cadastres
  • Village municipality
  • Feudal large estate
  • Raabs reform
  • The parish community and the poor
  • Folk culture in the countryside
  • The search for the individual in the countryside in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century
Literature
    required literature
  • KAZIMOUR, Josef: K dějinám dělení velkostatků v 18. století. Praha 1921.
  • BUMBA, Jan. České katastry od 11. do 21. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2007, 190 s. ISBN 9788024723181. info
  • KROFTA, Kamil. Dějiny selského stavu. Vyd. 2. V Praze: Jan Laichter, 1949, 458 s. URL info
    recommended literature
  • TINKOVÁ, Daniela. Zákeřná mefitis : zdravotní policie, osvěta a veřejná hygiena v pozdně osvícenských Čechách. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2012, 350 s. ISBN 9788025706367. info
  • BERANOVÁ, Magdalena and Antonín KUBAČÁK. Dějiny zemědělství v Čechách a na Moravě. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2010, 430 s. ISBN 9788072771134. info
  • VELKOVÁ, Alice. Krutá vrchnost, ubozí poddaní? : proměny venkovské rodiny a společnosti v 18. a první polovině 19. století na příkladu západočeského panství Šťáhlavy. Praha: Historický ústav, 2009, 586 s. ISBN 9788072861514. info
  • MALÍŘ, Jiří. Člověk na Moravě ve druhé polovině 18. století. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2008, 365 s. ISBN 9788073251758. info
  • NEŠPOR, Václav. Dějiny roboty na panství olomouckém. Olomouc: Krajské nakladatelství, 1960, 165 s. info
  • PROCHÁZKA, Jan. Parcelování velkostatků (raabisace) za Marie Terezie v Čechách. V Praze: nákladem vydavatelovým, 1925, 67 stran. info
Teaching methods
seminary, class discussion, homework
Assessment methods
Seminar paper
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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