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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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A separate area of the problem is bound to the seminar teaching. Here it will be essentially about the characteristics of the source base for the history of the Czech lands in the early modern period. On the basis of concrete examples and their analysis, the fundamental transformation of the source base, which occurred in both quantitative and qualitative terms in the early modern period, will be presented. The development of the agenda of patrimonial administration will be characterised through sources, but also sources of state (country-wide) or ecclesiastical provenance will be important. The analysis of the sources will be oriented towards developing the ability to work critically with historical sources and specialist literature. -Czech lands during the Thirty Years' War. Evaluation of the "White Mountain" and the Thirty Years' War by the existing Czech and foreign historiography -Economic and social consequences of the Thirty Years' War (and their reflection in the source base) -The demographic development of the Czech lands from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century -The nobility after the Thirty Years' War, characteristics of the nobleman's estate (development, types) -The serf population after the Thirty Years' War (problems of changes in legal and social status, serfdom, serfdom, the question of labour, property and cultural conditions of the rural population in the early modern period) -Forms and significance of the resistance of serfs in the 17th and 18th centuries -Religious and cultural conditions in the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries (recatholization, issues of Baroque culture, art, Czech Baroque literature and linguistic development) -Issues of 'absolutism' and the nature of the absolutist state in Central Europe -Foreign policy of the Habsburg monarchy in the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries and its internal political consequences -Czech lands in the period of Enlightenment absolutism 1740-1792 -The economic development of the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries (specific features of proto-industrialisation in the Czech lands, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution) -Conditions for the genesis of the modern Czech nation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries -Czech lands until 1815 (echoes of the French Revolution in the Czech lands, Napoleonic Wars)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course is focused on the period of the history of the Czech lands, which is defined by the Thirty Years' War to the breakthrough related to the events of the general development of Europe at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In the course of the lecture series, the students' attention will be gradually directed to the spectrum of profound political, social, economic and cultural transformations of the Czech lands, which are closely related to the crisis moments of the first half of the 17th century (the failed Estates, the Thirty Years' War, population and economic regression, etc.). The focus here will not only be on the overall development, but will also touch in a partial way on the changes in the meaning and position of the individual social strata of contemporary Estates society (nobility, urban state and serf society). The process of consolidation of the monarchical power in the Bohemian lands and the Habsburg monarchy during the 17th and early 18th centuries will be further traced, and the assertion of absolutist principles will be characterised in the context of (and in comparison with) political conditions in other European states. This section will also include aspects of the religious and cultural development of the Czech lands in the early modern period (from recatholization to limited tolerance). Characteristics of the 18th century will then point to the gradual change in the centralist tendencies of the Habsburg rulers, focusing on their efforts at correct political, economic or social reforms (Enlightenment reforms). The economic development of the Bohemian lands will also be examined as a separate topic, and the principles of the promotion of modern forms of production and trade, as well as their connection with the absolutist state in Central Europe, will be presented. The last strand will then focus the attention of the students on the transformation brought about by the end of the 18th century itself. In a broader context, a wide range of preconditions for a national movement will be characterized, in the context of stimuli closely related to the transformation of European thought and culture (especially the Enlightenment), as well as Europe-wide events that fundamentally transformed European society as a whole (the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Congress of Vienna).
The graduate of the course demonstrates knowledge of the complex historical development of the early modern period in the Czech lands. The student is able to characterize the main development tendencies in a clear manner, to illuminate the most important processes and phenomena of the period in the context of the level of knowledge of contemporary historiography. At a specific level, it reliably defines the key concepts of the period under study and is able to illuminate and justify them in terms of spatial and chronological contexts. The graduate can also place the development of the Czech lands in the overall context of the development of the Habsburg Monarchy and other countries of Central Europe. For the graduate of the course, the competence in the area of working with the source base is important. The graduate will be able to identify and define the basic historical source types relevant to the Czech early modern period. He/she understands their basic structure and within this framework is able to propose a basic research procedure or a spectrum of methods suitable for the research use of a particular source type (examples).
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Written test (implemented electronically, Moodle).
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Recommended literature
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