Course: Diplomatics I

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Course title Diplomatics I
Course code KAPV/PBA39
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The beginnings of diplomatic studies, diplomacy in Bohemia until the end of the 18th century to the present, basic edition. 2. Terminology, the beginnings of diplomatic documents in the territory of the Czech state. 3. Offices of Czech monarchs until 1419. 4. Public notaries. Church diplomacy until the beginning of the 16th century. 5. Provincial and court records in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. 6. Diplomatic documents of the urban environment until the beginning of the 16th century. 7. Offices of the Bohemian Kings 1419 - 1526. 8. Diplomacy of the Modern Age (16th - 19th centuries) I. 9. Royal and other central and provincial offices of the Bohemian State 1526 - 1848 I. 10. Royal and other central and provincial offices of the Bohemian State 1526 - 1848 II. 11. Municipal diplomacy 1526 - 1848. 12. Church diplomacy 1526 1848, school documents, registers. 13. High-ranking diplomats 1526 - 1848, accounting documents. 14. Land registers.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen basic information about diplomacy as a key auxiliary historical science. The course is divided into blocks that systematically focus on individual areas of research into diplomatic documents.
The student will deepen his knowledge of medieval and modern diplomatic terminology; the development of Czech diplomatic studies; the characteristic features of diplomatic documents of the central offices of the Bohemian state, public notaries, urban noble and church provenance and cadastral documents; diplomatic editions and literature. He will learn to identify diplomatic documents; he will be able to describe and analyze them.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Orientation in the auxiliary sciences of history, Czech history and the history of administration up to 1848; ability to read Gothic script and Neo-Gothic cursive; mastery of the basics of Latin, ability to translate and understand German texts of a diplomatic nature.
Recommended literature
  • Jaroslav Macek, Václav Žáček. Krajská správa v českých zemích a její archivní fondy (1605-1868). Praha, 1958.
  • Jindřich Šebánek, Zdeněk Fiala, Zdeňka Hledíková a kol. Česká diplomatika do roku 1848. Praha, 1984.
  • Karel Stloukal. Česká kancelář dvorská 1599-1608. Praha, 1931.
  • Petr Rak. Diplomatika I. Elektronická studijní opora pro studenty se specifickými vzdělávacími potřebami. Praha, 2014.
  • Zbyněk Sviták. Z počátků moderní byrokracie. Nejvyšší zeměpanský úřad na Moravě v letech 1748-1782. Brno, 2011.


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