Course: Paleographic Exercise:14-16th Century

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Course title Paleographic Exercise:14-16th Century
Course code KAPV/KV306
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Velička Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Changes in the reception of the written word in the late Middle Ages and on the threshold of the early modern period 2. The late medieval bastard of official documents and literary manuscripts 3. Humanist writing and changes in the written word in the 15th and 16th centuries 4. The writing of official documents in the 16th century 5. Historical inscriptions and their writing

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide in-depth knowledge of the practical paleography of the older period. This was a time of significant changes in the scripts used (especially the penetration of humanistic scripts), which, however, only gradually found their way into Czech and Moravian sources. The basic content of the course will be the instructed reading of selected texts and the related interpretation of paleographic, linguistic and content phenomena. The selection will cover a wide range of different texts, both in terms of content, form and function. In individual seminars, students will encounter common types of texts, such as documents, open sheets or accounting material, but also manuscript sources of a literary nature and, last but not least, inscriptional (epigraphic) monuments.
The student has in-depth knowledge of the field of paleography of the 14th-16th centuries, including cultural-historical overlaps regarding the spread and application of the written word in this form. The student is able to correctly read and interpret a wide range of selected sources from the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period. He/she is also able to work with printed texts and is able to classify and interpret the script of epigraphic monuments.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The final test verifies practical paleographic knowledge.
Recommended literature
  • Hana Pátková. Česká středověká paleografie. České Budějovice, 2008.
  • Jaroslav Kašpar. Soubor statí o novověkém písmu. Praha, 1993.
  • Juraj Šedivý. Historické nápisy a ich nosiče. Bratislava, 2018.
  • Michal Dragoun. Středověké rukopisy v českých zemích. Handbušek kodikologa. Praha, 2018.


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