FF:LJMedB28 Texts about the Last Things - Course Information

LJMedB28 Reading Latin Texts about the Last Things

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Mazalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Lucie Mazalová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Classical latin language (2 or 3 semesters).

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

• Classical Philology (programme FF, D-FI4) (2)
• Medieval Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, D-FI4) (2)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Medieval Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• Medieval Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Medieval Latin language and literature (jednooborový) (programme FF, N-LLS_) (3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)

Course objectives

The main objectives of the course is the knowledge of translating and interpreting Latin medieval texts which deal - in various ways - with the last things of the man (heaven, hell, purgatory, Antichrist etc.) and have a various form of genre.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, student will be able to: - have an orientation in basic Latin wordlist of the eschatological texts - indentify specifics of particular texts - visions, prechings, tracts etc. - coherently translate this typ of texts - interpretate original Latin texts in relation to the contemporary context

Syllabus

• Part I. (3 seminars) Introduction to the translation and interpretation of medieval eschatological texts. Part II (seminars 4.-13.): Translation and interpretation of selected texts: Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis; Otlohus Ratisbonensis (visio); Sibylla Tiburtina; Nicolaus de Dresda: De purgatorio; De periculis novissimorum temporum; Otto Frisingensis: De duabus civitatibus (the passages about the Antichrist).

Literature

• Die Tiburtinische Sibylle. Hrsg. von E. Sackur. In Sibyllinische Texte und Forschungen. Halle a. S.: Max Niermeyer, 1898, s. 177–187
• OTLOH VON ST. EMMERAM. Liber visionum. Hrsg. von P. G. Schmidt. Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1989. MGH, Band 13.
• Nicolaus de Dresda: De purgatorio. Ed. P. de Vooght. In Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale Vol. 42 (Janvier-Décembre 1975), pp. 132-223
• MATĚJ Z JANOVA. Matěje z Janova, Mistra pařížského, Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti (Matthiae de Janov dicti Magister Parisiensis Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti), sv. III: Ed. V. Kybal. Inšpruk: Univerzitní knihkupectví Wagnerovo, 1911.
• Otto Frisingensis: Chronicasive Historia de duabus civitatibus. Ed. A. Hofmeister. In MGH 1912.

Teaching methods

seminars

Assessment methods

oral colloquium

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.

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