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Lecturer(s)
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Zábranský Vilém, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Subjects of the individual lectures: 1. Periodization of medieval Czech history 2. The Czech lands during the period of the arrival of the Slavs and the issue of the so-called Great Moravian Empire 3. The beginnings of the Bohemian state and the so-called Boleslav empire of the earlist Premyslides, the first crisis of the Bohemian state 4.-5. The Czech lands during the early Middle Ages, the quest of the Bohemian dukes for the royal crown 6.-7. Bohemia under the Premyslide kings and the so-called great transformation of the medieval society 8. The Premyslide heritage and the first Luxemburgs on the Bohemian throne 9.-10. The development of the Crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Bohemian state during the high Middle Ages and its problems 11. The causes, progresses and results of the Hussite wars 12.-13. The path to the Estates? monarchy - the development of the Bohemian state in the post-Hussite wars period 14. "Bohemian national monarchy" - monarchy during the period of George of Poděbrady 15. The estates monarchy under the Jagiellonian reign
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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In the framework of introducing to the Bohemian history and the history of the Czech lands, the lectures focus on the period from the arrival of the Slavs to the local territory, the establishment of the first state units, the constitution of the Bohemian medieval state of the Premyslids and the period of its upswing under the reign of the last Premyslids and Luxemburgs to the Hussite revolution, as well as on the crucial moments of Bohemian history from the Hussite wars and the Podiebrad and Jagiellonian periods. Apart from providing basic historical overview, especially the seminars will serve to discuss special problematic subjects and emphasis will also be laid on working with documents dating to the related periods.
The graduates are orientated in the main issues of the Bohemian Middle Ages and the beginnings of the early modern times both from the point of methodology and heuristics. They are familiar with the relevant terminology, basic literature and edition sources related to the given period. They are capable of interpreting the main types of sources and critically evaluating the corresponding literature as well as viewing the development of the earlier Bohemian history in overall European context.
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Prerequisites
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Language level at least intermediate.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Active participation in lectures, reading assigned texts and the ability to report on them.
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Recommended literature
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Josef Pánek et al. A History of the Czech Lands. Praha, 2015.
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