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Lecturer(s)
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Fukala Radek, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Subject circles of the individual lectures: 1. Early stages of Bohemian historiography 2. Medieval Bohemian historiography 3. Historiography of the Hussite period 4. Humanist historiography in the Czech lands 5. Baroque historiography in Bohemia and Moravia 6. The post-White Mountain exile tendency of historiography in the Czech lands 7. Historiography in the Czech lands during the Enlightenment 8. Historiography during the National Revival 9. Professionalization of historiography in the Czech lands 10. Historiographic positivism and the Goll School 11. The scientific prestige of the Goll School 12. Czech and Czechoslovak interwar historiography 13. Czechoslovak Marxist historiography after 1948 New and inspiring tendencies in Czech historiography
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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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Interpretation of the development of Czech historiography occupies significant position in the university teaching on history. It is an instructive overview of the individual stages of historiography in the Czech lands and the development of ideas and opinions concerning historical science from Middle Ages to the present. The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the main tendencies and protagonists of modern Czech historiography, the development of its methods, the theoretical tools of historical science as well as its conceptual approaches and main issues. It reflects the transformations of Czech historical thinking and the links between historiography in the Czech lands and on a global scale. The first part of the course mainly focuses on the development of the earliest historiography in the Czech lands and the basic terminology, while the second part is devoted to the establishment of modern Czech historical science.
The graduates understand history as a scientific discipline and should be well orientated in modern historical works. Working with editions of sources, professional periodicals and elementary syntheses is a matter of course. The acquired skills will serve as a solid training for the students? further historical research in archives, libraries and other professional institutions. Emphasis is also laid on thorough knowledge of professional literature required in the framework of writing final works, especially the diploma.
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Prerequisites
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The precondition are: 1. Graduating from the subject Historiography I. 2. Reading elementary works of historiography, especially those dating to the 19th and 20th centuries, which also requires passive knowledge of Latin and German.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Students are required to actively participate in education and study the assigned literature and samples of professional texts. The submitted papers should demonstrate their capability of understanding the studied texts, of independently formulating questions and issues and, last but not least, of deducing their own conclusions and, eventually, viewing history of the Czech lands otherwise than along the hitherto established lines. Students are also required to read arbitrary work by Czech, German and Slovak historians and any edition of medieval chronicles. The credit and the credit exam are realized in written and oral form according to the requirements set by the examiner.
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Recommended literature
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