AEB_113 Textile production in the Primeval Era and Early to High Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
M. Bravermanová (lecturer)
H. Březinová (lecturer)
K. Urbanová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Dobešová
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 13:20–16:35 C42
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course is intended to familiarize the students with source materials, textile-making processes, textile manufacturing tools, and the preserved products. The lectures are primarily aimed at the territory of Bohemia and Moravia, although finds from other parts of Europe (and/or other parts of the world) will be presented in the form of analogies and references.
Syllabus
  • Theoretical lectures including Power Point presentations of pictures are divided into three blocks: 1) Primeval Era; 2) Early to High Middle Ages in rural and urban milieus; 3) Early to High Middle Ages in luxurious milieu. The lectures are aimed at textile raw materials, textile manufacturing equipment, fabric structures, fashion of the period, organization of production and trade, an overview of the textiles preserved up to now, written and pictorial sources, and a summarization of the hitherto research on the historical development of textile production. The second part of each of the above blocks consists in a seminar with a practical demonstration of working processes, demonstration of the individual types of textile finds and the preserved finished products, information on the documentation of historical textile, the fundamentals of conservation, depository storage, and visits to museum displays exhibiting historical textiles. The seminars will take place in a lecture room (blocks 1, 2) and at the Prague Castle (block 3). The aim of the lectures is not only to provide theoretical information to the students of the term instruction, but also to prepare them in such a way that as archaeologists, employees of museum or offices for the preservation of historical monuments they are capable of collecting the historical textile in a proper manner, carrying out a general interpretation and a documentation, organizing its conservation and a technological research, determining the conditions for its preservation, and carrying out a qualified surveillance.
Literature
  • BRAVERMANOVÁ, Milena and Michal LUTOVSKÝ. Hroby, hrobky a pohřebiště českých knížat a králů. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2001, 295 s. ISBN 8072770497. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2010, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2010/AEB_113