Course: Historical Sources I

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Course title Historical Sources I
Course code KHI/PMZ30
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Drška Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Stellner František, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Definition. Meaning and division of historical sources 2. Unwritten sources - material, iconographic, cartographic and other sources 3. Historical sources in archives 4. Historical sources in museums, libraries, etc. 5. Historical sources online/EIZ 6. Visiting archives 7. The most important editions of domestic historical sources 8. The most important editions of historical foreign sources 9. Chronicles and chronicling 10. Older ego-documents (diaries, memoirs, memoirs), travelogues, correspondence 11. Writings of patrimonial and municipal administration and their use 12. Other printed sources - charts, official calendars or directories; wills 13. Older local periodicals as historical sources Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The study of sources is presented in this course as the theory and practice of acquiring, studying, and using all historical sources, but without the specialized literature. Historical sources in this presentation are both the object and the subject of knowledge, i.e. the goal, whereas for historical science they serve only as a means to the knowledge of historical reality. Students will examine the general and common features of historical sources as sources of original information about the history of human society. The main task is to examine these sources in a way that they can serve historical science most optimally.
The student will gain a broad knowledge of the theory of historical sources, their nature and function, and will deepen his/her practical skills, including the classification and typology of sources. The student will learn the study of historical sources in common and general terms and will be able to use methods of acquiring, studying and making available historical sources.
Prerequisites
Completion of Introduction to the Study of History at the undergraduate level.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students participate in lectures and seminars for which they prepare using recommended and provided materials and literature. They discuss individual issues and place them in a broader context. They produce a seminar paper of 3 standard pages in the form of a critique of a key source for their forthcoming bachelor's thesis.
Recommended literature
  • BARTOŠ, J. Úvod do metodiky historického bádání a nauky o pramenech. Olomouc, 1999.
  • František Stellner a kol. Úvod do studia historie. Praha, 2023.
  • Ivan Hlaváček - Jaroslav Kašpar - Rostislav Nový. Vademecum pomocných věd historických. Praha, 2015.
  • Josef BARTOŠ - Stanislava KOVÁŘOVÁ. Nauka o historických pramenech. Olomouc, 2005.
  • Josef Bartoš. Nauka o historických pramenech. Olomouc, 2005.
  • PETRÁŇ, J. a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu, III., Nauka o historických pramenech. Praha, 1983.
  • WIHODA, Martin a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu I-II. Brno, 2014.


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