Passing the study plan
master's full-time minor, language of instruction: English
Included in the programme: FF N-LLSA_ Medieval Latin Language and Literature
Povinné předměty (P+PV 40 kr.)
Students must obtain all 26 credits from the listed mandatory courses. In addition, during the course of their studies students must read selected Latin sources in the original and/or in translation. The ability to understand, read and interpret the original texts is checked in the given courses (individual readings) or during the state exam.
Reading in original (summary of all mandatory colloquia and courses):
Vulgate: Genesis, Psalmi poen. (6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, 142), one gospel
Augustinus, De civitate Dei I; II; V, 1–8; VI; VIII; XXII, 30; Confessiones I; VIII; IX
Philosophical and theological texts: Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae – I,1 – carm. V; III, carm. IX; Seneca: Ad Luc. 1, 16, 47; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae p. 1, q. 1
European and Bohemian medieval poetry: Carmina Burana 11, 16, 17, 41, 42, 44, 51, 74, 75, 100, 117, 123, 130, 131a, 136, 138, 143, 191, 196, 211, 219; Gualterus de Castellione – Alexandreis I, 1–202
European and Bohemian medieval historiography: Cosmae Pragensis Chronica Bohemorum I; Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum I, 1; II, 9, 12–16; III, 1–3
European and Bohemian hagiography: Christiani monachi Vita et passio sancti Venceslai et sanctae Ludmilae avae eius; Legenda aurea 87 (De Epiphania Domini), 662 (De sancto Francisco)
Medieval exempla: Petrus Alphonsi, Disciplina clericalis (1-15); Gesta Romanorum (5 exempla)
Humanistic literature: J. A. Comenius, Schola infantiae, kap. 4, 6-8; Bohuslav Hasištejnský, Carmina 83, 200, 316; Matouš Collinus, De peste; Jan Campanus Vodňanský, De exundatione Vultavae, In ventrem, Anni 1601 descriptio; Alžběta Johanna Westonia, De inundatione Pragae.
Reading in translation:
Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium (selection); Pliny the Elder, Natural history (selection); Lucan, On the Civil War (book 1. and 6.); Martial, Selected Epigrams; Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory (books 1., 2. and 10.); Statius, Thebais (book 12); Silvae (selection); Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Book of Revelation; Augustine, On Christian Doctrine; Jerome, Selected Letters; Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, The Plays; Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne; Thietmar of Merseburg, The Chronicle; Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogue on miracles (10 chapters); Golden Legend (100 pages); Erasmus of Rotterdam, In Praise of Folly; Comenius, Unum necessarium. The One Thing Needed.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:LJMedA01 | Introduction to Medieval Latin | z | 4 | 1 | Z |
FF:LJ153 | Medieval and Humanistic Latin I | k | 4 | 1 | Z |
FF:LJ154 | Medieval and Humanistic Latin II | zk | 4 | 2 | P |
FF:LJMedA02 | Bohemian-Latin Medieval Literature - dynasty of Premyslids | k | 4 | 2 | Z |
FF:LJMedA03 | Bohemian-Latin Medieval Literature - dynasty of Luxembourg | zk | 4 | 3 | P |
FF:LJ253 | Reading and Metrical Analysis of Horace | k | 4 | 1 | - |
FF:LJ156 | Test in Latin Normative Grammar | zk | 2 | 4 | - |
26 credits |
Selective courses
Blok 1
Students must pass at least one interpretative seminar and obtain 4 credits:
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:LJMedA07 | Interpretative Seminar: Medieval Latin I | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJMedA08 | Interpretative Seminar: Medieval Latin II | k | 4 | - | - |
8 credits |
Blok 2
Students are obliged to obtain at least 4 credits from one of the following courses:
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:LJMedC17 | Individual Reading: Philosophical and Theololgical Texts | k | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJMedC12 | Individual Reading: European and Bohemian historiography | k | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJMedC11 | Individual Reading: European and Bohemian hagiography | k | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJMedC15 | Individual Reading: Medieval Exempla | k | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJMedC16 | Individual Reading: Humanistic Literature | k | 2 | - | - |
10 credits |
Blok 3
Students must obtain 6 credits from the following selective courses:
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:LJMedA10 | Seminar on Textual Criticism | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJMedA09 | Bible Seminar (Vulgate) | z | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJMedA11 | Auxiliary Sciences of History for Medievalists | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJMedB31 | Textual Culture of the Czech Reformation | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJMedB32 | Latin Manuscripts and Medieval Literature | k | 5 | - | - |
FF:MEDMgr01 | Selected literary theories and methods of textual interpretation | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJ351 | Roman Literature of the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity | zk | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJ252 | Master's Interpretative Seminar II | k | 4 | - | - |
31 credits |