Course: Introduction of the study of history II

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Course title Introduction of the study of history II
Course code KHI/R411
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Velímský Tomáš, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1. About the seminar work and how to write it. 2. Use of citations in historical studies. 3. Narrative sources and their fates - The Kristian's legend 4. -5. Social and cultural anthropology (report on C. Lévi-Strauss, Thinking of natural nations, introduction, commented readings from C. Lévi-Strauss: Sad tropics 6. Historical demography (report on J. Horský - M. Seligová, Family of our ancestors, explanations) 7.-8. Diplomatic sources - two letters of Wenceslas I. for the city of Brno and their testimony to the problems of medieval law (commented reading of two writings from 1243, explanations to development of medieval law, commentary on the Sachsenspiegel autography from Heidelberg) 9. Historical semantic (report on I. Němec: Words and history or History of speech, explanation on the role of J. Macek, example of a testimony of historical semantic - housing and house in Czech Medieval Ages) 10. Toponomastics (report on V. Šmilauer, Settlement of Bohemia in the light of local names, explanation) 11. Anthroponomastics (report on J. Beneš: About Czech Lastnames, explanation on patrocinial studies and possible political and cultural relations of preferred personal names) 12.-13. Outsiders (about the importance of problematics, F. Graus, minorities in history - Jews, Roma) 14. Hunger and walth in the history of Europe (report on M. Montanari's work, explanation)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Introduction to history as a scientific discipline, its place in the systém of sciencis and with internal classification, organization in the Czech Rep. Introduction to sources and methods of history. Acquiring of basic practical scils in historical studies.
General overview of the discipline and ability to independently work on a small historical topic using literature and sources, presented in the form of seminar work.
Prerequisites
Introduction to historic studies I.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Good attendance and continual task fulfillment.
Recommended literature
  • Kosmova kronika česká. Praha-Litomyšl, 2005.
  • BENEŠ, Josef. O českých příjmeních. Praha, 1962.
  • BOHÁČ, Zdeněk. Patrocinia jako jeden z pramenů k dějinám osídlení. 1973.
  • ECO, Umberto. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997. ISBN 80-719-8173-7.
  • ed. W. Koschorreck. Der Sachsenspiegel in Bildern. Frankfurt a.M., 1976.
  • FLODR, Miroslav. Iura originalia civitatis Brunensis. Brno, 1993.
  • GEREMEK, Bronislaw. Slitování a šibenice. Praha, 1999.
  • GRAUS, František. Pest - Geisler - Judenmorde. Das 14. Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit. Göttingen, 1988.
  • HORSKÁ, Pavla a kol. Dětství, rodina a stáří v dějinách Evropy, Myšlení přírodních národů. Praha, 1990.
  • HORSKÝ, Jan - SELIGOVÁ, Markéta. Rodina našich předků. Praha, 1996.
  • IRSIGLER, Franz - LASSOTTA, Arnold. Bettler und Gaukler, Dirnen und Henker. Au3enseiter in einer mittelalterlichen Stadt. München, 1991.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Myšlení přírodních národů. Praha, 1996.
  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Smutné tropy. Praha, 1966.
  • Ludmila FIALOVÁ a kol. Dějiny obyvatelstva českých zemí. Praha, 1996.
  • MOLDANOVÁ, Dobrava. Naše příjmení. Praha, 1983.
  • MONTANARI, Massimo. Hlad a hojnost v dějinách Evropy. Praha, 2003.
  • NĚMEC, I. - HORÁLEK, Jan a kol. Dědictví řeči. Praha, 1986.
  • NĚMEC, Igor a kol. Slova a dějiny. Praha, 1980.
  • OLIVOVÁ-NEZBEDOVÁ, Libuše a kol. Pomístní jména v Čechách. Praha, 1995.
  • ŠMILAUER, Vladimír. Osídlení Čech ve světle místních jmen. Praha, 1960.
  • TŘEŠTÍK, D. Kosmas. Praha, 1972.
  • TŘEŠTÍK, Dušan. Kosmova kronika. Studie k počátkům českého dějepisectví a politického myšlení. Praha, 1968.


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