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Lecturer(s)
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Hrubá Michaela, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Koumar Jiří, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. The accession of the Habsburgs to the Bohemian throne and the establishment of the Habsburg monarchy 2. The political system, economic, social and religious evelopment, the position of the Estates and first Estates resistance 3. Humanism, Renaissance, education and culture of pre-Blohemian Bohemia 4. The Second Estates? Resistance, the Czech lands in the Thirty Years? War and the evaluation of the "White Mountain" by the existing historiography 5. The economic and social consequences of the Thirty Years? War (and their reflection in the source base), the problem of the demographic development of the Czech lands from the 16th to the first half of the 19th century 6. The nobility after the Thirty Years? War, characteristics of the nobleman?s estate (development, types) 7. The serfs after the Thirty Years? War (the issue of changes in legal and social status, serfdom, the question of robots) 8. Forms and significance of resistance of serfs in the 17th and 18th centuries 9. Religious and cultural conditions in the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries 10. The issue of "absolutism" and the nature of the absolutist state in Central Europe 11. Foreign policy of the Habsburg monarchy in the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries and its domestic political consequences 12. Czech lands in the period of Enlightenment absolutism 1740-1792 13. Economic development of the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries (Specific features of proto-industrialisation in the Czech lands, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution) 14. The assumptions of the genesis of the modern CZech nation at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century (the Englihtenment, the echo of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars in the Czech lands)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the period of Czech history from the accession of the Habsburgs to the Czech throne to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, i.e. the period of the so-ccalled early modern period. The focus is not only on the course of political history and events, but also on issues and aspects of economic, social and cultural development. The chronological limitation therefore represents only a framework basis; it is necessary to take into account more extensive historical stages and overlaps (e.g. espects of population development, the development of the social structure of the population of the Czech lands, etc.). The main aim of this part of the course is to introduce students to the main problems of the history of this period in the broader context of the history of the entire Habsburg Monarchy and Central Europe. This concerns, in particular, foreign policy, with its implications for internal conditions, and tracing the uneven and specific development of the various parts of the Habsburg monarchy. The nature of the influence of the Viennese court and of the individual Habsburg monarchs, which naturally had a fundamental impact on the development of the Bohemian Crown in the historical period under review, will also be examined.
Credit - written test, presentation and elaboration of a selected topic (seminar paper), active participation in seminar teaching (discussion of selected topics, elaboration of continuous tasks), attendance Examination - oral examination (characterization of the topic chosen on the basis of two questions, reflection on selected titles from the reading presented)
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Essay - 18 000 characters.
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Recommended literature
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Fialová, L. a kol. Dějiny obyvatelstva českých zemí. Praha, 1996.
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