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Lecturer(s)
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Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Zeman Václav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Overview of the development of the study of ancient and medieval Latin writing, terminology 2. Periodization of the Latin script; the origin of the Latin alphabet and the geginnings of the Roman script 3. Roman writing up to the middle of the first millennium AD 4. National scripts 5. Systems of abbreviations 6. Carolina and diplomatic minuscule 7. Gothic script - minuscule 8. Gothic script - semi-cursive 9. Gothic cursive script 10. Font of Bohemian sovereign charters of 13-14th century 11. Book writing of the 13th-14th centuries 12. Font of official books of the 13th-14th centuries Writing numerals 13. Bastarda I. 14. Bastarda II.
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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 enables to learn about the development and the main types of Latin script until the end of the Middle Ages and to learn the basics of reading the scripts used in medieval texts written in the Czech lands until the beginning of the 16th century. Emphasis is placed on the develpment of Latin paleography up to the early modern perio, its periodisation, types of scripts and mastering the basics of reading diplomatic and literary texts of the 12th-15th centuries.
The student acquires knowledge of palaeographical terminology, writing inks and terminology of various kinds of Latin script from 500 BC till the 15th century; the development and periodization of Latin script and basic circumstances which formed this development; basic types of this script (Latin Majuscule, Square Capital, Rustic Capital, Actuarial script; Capital bastarda, Old and New Roman Cursive, Imperial Cursive; Uncial and Half-uncial; Old and New Curial writing; book script of Old Italy and Benventan and Casinense; Lombardic, Visigothic and Merovingian; Irish and Anglo-Saxon Half-uncial and Minuscule; Caroline Minuscule, Diplomatic Minuscule and Gothic Minuscule; Bastarda); differentiation and periodization of Gothic Minuscule (basic, decorative, general, bastarda and cursive. The student acquires abilities: to recognize and describe single basic types of Latin script; reading, transliteration and transcription of the readable gothic minuscule and cursive; understanding, reading and itemization of the abbreviations of Caroline and Gothic minuscule; managing methods which help to improve and deepen the basic knowledge from reading of the legible Gothic Minuscule and Cursive.
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge of the basics of Latin, good knowledge of German language.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit tests - transliteration of a text written in Gothic script and in Neo-Gothic cursive.
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Recommended literature
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RAK, Petr. Paleografie I. a II. Elektronická studijní opora pro studenty se specifickými vzdělávacími potřebami . Ústí nad Labem, 2013.
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