FF:BA110 Readings in Baltic Literatures - Course Information
BA110 Independent Readings in the Literature and History of the Baltic Area
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 1 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – 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
- Baltic Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Baltic Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-HS)
- Course objectives
- The students are given a list of literary works (fiction, i.e. belles-lettres, chronicles), which they have to exploit as historical sources for the period concerned (the Middle Ages of the Baltic region).
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to evaluate a historical source, express its content and distinguish different historical layers of a text.
- Syllabus
- Oldiest textual sources concerning Baltics. Tha Nodric folklore of Sami, Finnish, Estonian people etc. Baltic folklore. Cronicles of Livonia Russian cronicles. Baltics int the scope of the western literature of midlle-ages.
- Literature
- required literature
- HAVLÍČEK BOROVSKÝ, Karel. Křest svatého Vladimíra. Praha: Odeon, 1985. info
- recommended literature
- Jako když dvoranou proletí pták : antologie nejstarší anglické poezie a prózy (700-1100). Edited by Jan Čermák. 1. vyd. Praha: Triáda, 2009, 671 s. ISBN 9788087256114. info
- not specified
- Petrus de Dusburgk: Chronicon Terræ Prussiæ.
- Henrikus de Lettis: Chronicon Liuonicum uetus continens res gestus trium primorum episcoporum. 1224 - 1227
- Život a utrpení sv. Vojtěcha biskupa a mučedníka. Praha 1935
- Anonym: Livlandische Reimchronik. 1290 – 1296
- Lietuvos statutai (1529, 1566, 1588)
- Erben, K.J.: Nestorův letopis ruský. Praha 1940
- Teaching methods
- Home reading.
- Assessment methods
- A prescribed number of protocols (which is specified every time at the beginning of the course) must be submitted to the lecturer.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: studenti samostatně čtou zadané tituly a zpracovávají výpisky.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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