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Lecturer(s)
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Drška Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. The disintegration of the Late Antique world, the migration of peoples and the emergence of "barbarian kingdoms", the social structure of the "new tribes", their elites and the East Roman Empire. 2. The Frankish world. 3. The Church in the early Middle Ages. 4. The struggle for investiture. 5 Islam and Europe. 6. Western (Latin) Europe in the Middle Ages. 7. Central Europe under the sign of imperial universalism. 8. Anglo-French conflict in the 12th and 13th centuries. 9. Byzantium and the Orthodox world. 10. European expansion and prosperity. 11. Papal politics from the Concordat of Worms to the rise of the Avignon papacy. 12. The "centralized" monarchies of Western Europe. Europe and the "crisis" of the 14th-15th centuries. 13. Spiritual and cultural movements of the early Middle Ages. The development of scholasticism and the evolution of medieval science. 14. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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It is a one-semester course, consisting of a two-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar per week. The lectures are designed to introduce students to the basic topics of medieval studies up to the end of the 15th century and to provide a basic overview of the development of medieval European society and to inform them about the current state of research. The aim of the seminar is to familiarize students with the basic methodological and methodological procedures of medieval studies through work with selected sources and literature. The emphasis is on the interpretive mastery of the text and the heuristics of the field.
The student will understand the basic methodological problems of contemporary medievalist discourse, will be able to explain the essence of the main periodization milestones of the epoch, and will be oriented in relative chronology and basic causal links of the historical process. Can locate the basic sources for understanding medieval European society and its interaction with neighbouring cultures
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Written test
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Recommended literature
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