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Lecturer(s)
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Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Antique science and culture, 2) Christianity and pagan heritage, problems of transmission of antique culture, 3) Monastery culture and reading ( lectio divino), 4) Carolignian Renaissance and its importance for European spiritual culture, 5) Renaissance in the 12th century, new attitude to the nature, 6) Education at cathedral schools in France, the case of Abaelard, 7) Formation of universities and their character in Middle Ages, scholastic 8) Human body in medieval thinking, physiology and medicine, culture of monsters, 9) Plague and reactions on epidemies in the period of Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, 10) Italian Renaissance, Italian and transalpine humanism, 11) Occultism in the period of Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, 12) Bookprint and its impact on the culture of reading, 13) Scientific revolution in the period of Early Modern Times, 14) Science and culture in the threshold of modern time, Enlightenment
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The indended objective of the discipline is to inform students about main topics of the history of science and culture in the period from Antiquity to early Modern Times. We will mainly look at European space and Latin spiritual culture. In chronological order we will deal with the most important persons of the history of science, methods of cognition, institutions and their importance along with intellectual postulates characteristic for particular periods.
Students should learn to use such terms as "tradition" and "continuity" while assessing different aspects of spiritual culture. They should learn to work with dictionaries and handbooks relating to the discipline, furthermore to perceive wider European cultural context. To work with key categories as scholastic, Renaissance, Humanism, Enlightenment etc.as with historiographically conditioned categories.
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Prerequisites
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In fact there are none, students are advised to have some elementary knowledge of Latin and of history of Middle Ages and early Modern Times
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Demonstrable orientation in lectured problems, knowledge of related terminology, ability to formulate continuous appraisal of choosen phenomenon.
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Recommended literature
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Alexandre KOYRE. Od uzavřeného světa k nekonečnému vesmíru. Praha, 2004.
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E. R. CURTIUS. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha, 1998.
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Jacques LE GOFF. Intelektuálové ve středověku. Praha, 1999.
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Oskar KRISTELLER. Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha, 2007.
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Pavel FLOSS. Architekti křesťanského středověkého vědění. Praha, 2004.
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