The aim of the course is to present students with an up-to-date view of the origins of the Bohemian medieval nobility (from the early Slavic elites, through the companions in the early medieval state of the Premyslids, to the constitution of the high medieval landed nobility) and to point out the difficulties of its study and the diversity of opinions historians dealing with this problem.
The student will learn about the development of elites in the Czech environment from the early Slavic period to the High Middle Ages (13th-14th century). He/she will get an idea of the sources available to medievalists for the studi of this issue and will understand that their testimony is not unambiguous and also leads to different interpretations. They will learn that the development of the elites in the environment of the first state formations in our territory (Great Moravia and then the Bohemian Přemyslid state) cannot be traced without taking into account the influences from the environment of the Frankish Empire and later the restored Roman Empire under the rulers of the Ottonian, Saxon and Staffa dynasties. They will get acquainted in detail with the process of transformation of the retinue elites, whose leaders and rank-and-file members were recruited mainly from the family clans and derived their status both from their authority within the clans and especially from their service to the ruler, not only as warriors but also in court offices or in the castle administration. With the gradual increase in land tenure during the internal colonisation of the country in the 11th and especially 12th centuries, members of the elite began to build their own residences - manors, also equipped with proprietary churches. The process of transformation into the medieval nobility cluminated during the 13th century, when a gradual division into the upper and lower nobility also took placce.
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