FF:MUB_B004 The Material Culture IV. - Course Information
MUB_B004 The Material Culture and Everyday Life IV.
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Miriam Molnárová
Supplier department: Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - 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
- At the end of the course students will be able to describe basic trends in development of the society in historical Czech Lands in the 17 and 18 century. They will be able to characterize significant elements of contemporary civilisation and compare specific forms of everyday life within particular components of society (monarchs, nobility, citizens etc.).
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- characterize significant elements of contemporary civilisation in 17th and 18th century and compare specific forms of everyday life within particular components of society - Syllabus
- Characteristics of the Baroque Period - basic tendencies and new directions in thinking, art, politics, religious and economic development.
- Status and the role of the monarch in the baroque society, Imperial Court in Vienna - function, structure, its influence on material culture in the Czech lands.
- Army - Changes in its functioning during the 17th and 18th centuries, the everyday life in the army.
- Infantry, cavalry, artillery - structure, armament, outfit.
- Nobility - changes in the status and structure of the nobility after the Battle of the White Mountain, types of noble settlements, their equipment, food, clothing.
- Daily life of Nobles - birth, adolescence, funeral, etc., the way of spending leisure time.
- Church - religious situation after the Battle of the White Mountain, the structure of the secular and regular clergy in the Czech Lands - everyday life, interior and architecture of the Baroque church and monastery - typical elements.
- Townspeople - types of cities in the Czech Lands, guilds and manufactories, structure of urban population. Way of townspeople's life, interior and arrangement of their houses, clothing, food.
- Subjects - relationships between subjects and their Lords, types of rent, manor farmhouse - ways of its management. Structure of the rural population, organization and interior of the village house, material culture, everyday life, food, clothing. Jewish minority - development and position in the Baroque society, making a living, daily life (birth, adolescence, marriage, death), religious tradition, material culture, interior of the Jewish house.
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- written or oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- The course is supported by e-learning with relevant study materials.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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