FF:UZHIA05 Issues of the Early Modern Age - Course Information
UZHIA05 Basic Issues of the Early Modern Age in Europe
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Pavel Boček, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Bronislav Chocholáč, Dr. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Mgr. Tomáš Knoz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Mgr. Tomáš Knoz, 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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in History (programme FF, N-HIU_) (3)
- Course objectives
- The course is focused on presenting the crucial themes and terms especially from the areas of the political, cultural, religious, economic and social history of Early Modern Europe.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the subject, the student will be able to define, understand and explain the specific of the historical development of various European areas and regions in all its breadth and complexity.
- Syllabus
- The term Early Modern Period.
- Absolutism and European Monarchy.
- Baroque Culture.
- The Enlightenment and secularization.
- Large Estate.
- Proto-industrialization.
- Family and household.
- Death and the perception of death.
- Literature
- required literature
- IM HOF, Ulrich. Evropa a osvícenství. Translated by Alexej Kusák. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2001, 268 s. ISBN 80-7106-394-0. info
- Die Frühe Neuzeit in der Geschichtswissenschaft : Forschungstendenzen und Forschungserträge. Edited by Nada Boškovska Leimgruber. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 350671306X. info
- recommended literature
- MYŠKA, Milan: Proto-industrializace. (Čvrtstoletá bilance jednoho historiografického paradigmatu). Český časopis historický 92, 1994, s. 759-774.
- Peters, Jan (edd.): Gutsherrschaftsgesellschaften im europäischen Vergleich. Berlin 1997.
- HERSCHE, Peter. Muße und Verschwendung : europäische Gesellschaft und Kultur im Barockzeitalter. Freiburg: Herder, 2006, viii, s. ISBN 3451289083. info
- BURKE, Peter. Lidová kultura v raně novověké Evropě. Translated by Markéta Křížová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2005, 374 s. ISBN 8072036386. info
- LIVI BACCI, Massimo. Populace v evropské historii. Translated by Tomáš Tatranský. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2003, 272 s. ISBN 80-7106-495-5. info
- HORSKÁ, Pavla, Jiří MUSIL and Eduard MAUR. Zrod velkoměsta : urbanizace českých zemí a Evropa. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2002, 352 s. ISBN 8071854093. info
- HORSKÁ, Pavla, Milan KUČERA, Eduard MAUR and Milan STLOUKAL. Dětství, rodina a stáří v dějinách Evropy. Praha: Panorama, 1990, 474 s. ISBN 807038011X. info
- not specified
- PETERS, Jan (edd.): Gutsherrschaftsgesellschaften im europäischen Vergleich. Berlin 1997.
- PFISTER, Christian. Bevölkerungsgeschichte und historische Demographie 1500-1800. 2. Aufl. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007, viii, 152. ISBN 9783486581577. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures (including presentations) by two or more instructors with discussions by the students
- Assessment methods
- Colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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