PV1B02 Municipal books in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ivana Musilová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:30–14:05 U32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PV1A01 Introduction to Auxiliary Historical Sciences
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the problems of the study of municipal books in the Czech Lands from their introduction; and with some principles of critical editorial procedure. The lecture is focused on the development of municipal autonomy and town offices, the function of municipal law and judiciary. At the end of this course students will be able to understand the history of maintaing municipal books, their typology, the method of codicological and paleographical description and process of creating critical editions. Attention will be also paid to various partial aspects, such as the interpretation of watermarks, practice of reading the Old Czech texts and their transcription.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to the study of municipal books
  • The development of towns in Czech Lands until the end of the 16th century
  • Documents of a town office, classification and typology of municipal books
  • Municipal law
  • Codicological aspect of municipal books
  • Watermarks and their identification
  • Development of utility writing in a town office
  • Editorial principles and interpretation of municipal book as an official source
  • The typology of the most frequent records in municipal books and their interpretation
  • Testamentary practice in the Czech Lands during the Early Modern Age
  • Agenda of the disputed judicial and common ground of the judiciary
  • The Memorial Book of Boskovice 1484–1565 (1581) as an illustrative example of the function of a municipal book
  • Recapitulation (summary of the theory, one lesson dedicated to practical presentations, reading texts in municipal books and transcription practice)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • HOFFMANN, František. Středověké město v Čechách a na Moravě. Vydání první, (celkově d. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2009, 712 stran. ISBN 9788071065432. info
  • Libri civitatum Bohemiae nec non Moraviae inde ab anno 1310 usque ad annum 1526 :catalogus. Edited by Rostislav Nový. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1963, 207 s. info
  • VOJTÍŠEK, Václav. O studiu městských knih českých. V Praze: Nákladem vlastním, 1916, 30 s. info
  • SULITKOVÁ, Ludmila. Vývoj městských knih v Brně ve středověku : (v kontextu vývoje městských knih v českých zemích). Praha: Archiv Akademie věd ČR, 2004, 259 s. ISBN 8086404137. info
  • KOLDINSKÁ, Marie and Ivo CERMAN. Základní problémy studia raného novověku. Vydání první. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství lidové noviny, 2013, 801 stran. ISBN 9788073084851. info
  • BŮŽEK, Václav. Společnost českých zemí v raném novověku : struktury, identity, konflikty. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2010, 1025 s. ISBN 9788074220623. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminar
Assessment methods
credit (written test)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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