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Lecturer(s)
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Drška Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Fukala Radek, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Protoabsolutism as a problem of historical science: the nature of the modern state of the early modern period, its modes of administration, ideology. France and England as a paradigm of the problem? 2. European Reformation: causes, directions, interpretations. 3. Humanism and Renaissance as a current of thought and aesthetic canon. 4. German Protestantism. Causes, main features, consequences. 5. Swiss church reform. Causes, main features, consequences. 6. The Church of England and the Tudor monarchy. 7. The Catholic Reform and Trident. 8. Baroque Europe 9. The world of the Habsburgs: Spain and overseas, the medieval empire - attempts to reform it. 10. The rise of the modern state: the Netherlands 11. European conflicts before the Thirty Years' War: from great power rivalries to confessional struggles 12. Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries 13. The Thirty Years' War and the "crisis of the 17th century": causes, periodization, results; socio-economic developments and possibilities of interpretation. 14. The Peace of Westphalia and the new ordering of Europe.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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This is a one-semester course, consisting of one hour lecture and one hour seminar per week. The lectures are thematically and temporally related to previous topics in Course A and cover the time period up to 1648. Their aim is to introduce students to the basic themes of early modern European history and to give them an overview of the development of early modern European society and to provide information on the current state of research. The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with the basic methodological and methodological procedures applied in this period through work with selected sources and literature. Emphasis is placed on the interpretive mastery of the text and the heuristics of the field. Compared to the course General Ancient History A, the teaching is divided into hour-long, thematically narrower units.
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. It 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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General Earlier History A, KHI/BPH11
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Fulfillment of the test from the seminar general older history B.
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Recommended literature
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