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Lecturer(s)
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Holý Martin, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The combined form of teaching this subject covers the following topics in individual teaching blocks: 1. What is a source, basic typological characteristics of sources from the Middle Ages and early modern period with regard to the environment of the Czech lands 2. Classification and overview of medieval sources: annals, necrologies, Easter tables, chronicles - ancient tradition, "national historiography," origo gentis, world chronicles, city chronicles; biographies, hagiographies; Norse sagas; charters (and parts thereof), registers; Letters, correspondence, reports; municipal books and other sources of municipal origin; legal sources (canon and civil law), normative sources; economic sources (accounts, etc.), their use 75 3. Classification and overview of sources for the early modern period - dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other aids; Ego documents (diaries, autograph books, memoirs) - private letters (correspondence) - sources on the history of travel; historiography of the Humanist period and the Thirty Years' War; national chronicles; historical calendars; aristocratic historiography; university historiography; municipal historiography; Jewish historiography; memoirs; historiography of the Baroque and Enlightenment periods - Catholic historiography and its genres - language issues - scientific historiography and folk historiography; topographical literature - reflections on the Czech lands by foreign authors - biographical series; Journalism: newspapers - leaflets - polemical literature - beginnings of periodicals; historical songs, broadside ballads; other Baroque sources: sermons - legends - theater texts. 4. Material sources and pictorial sources (vedute and topographical sources; portraits as sources - selected examples).
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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 aim of the course is to introduce students to different types of historical texts from the period of earlier history to modern history. Sources used will include diplomatic, personal, historical, literary and other works and unwritten texts. Emphasis will be placed on their interpretation in the socio-cultural context in which they were produced and their subsequent textual, discursive and functional analysis. Other methods of historiography and related humanities and social disciplines will also be applied. Conceptually, the course will be a combination of lectures and seminar-style teaching, where students will actively work with historical texts.
Students will gain a deeper insight into the issues of historical texts, their types, development trends and other contexts of their creation and use (reception), while they will be able to develop competences acquired in other subjects. They will also broaden their knowledge of the methods, possibilities and limits of contemporary historical research. The course should also help them to draft their own academic papers based on the analysis of texts.
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite for the course is a basic orientation in the types of historical sources.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit will be awarded for active participation in the course and the preparation of an independent paper on a selected historical text.
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Recommended literature
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František Kutnar - Jaroslav Marek. Přehledné dějiny českého a slovenského dějepisectví. Praha, 1997.
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Josef Bartoš. Úvod do metodiky historického bádání a nauky o pramenech. Olomouc, 1999.
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Martin Elbel (ed.). Limity a možnosti historického poznání. Pardubice, 2008.
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Zdeněk Beneš. Historický text a historická skutečnost. Praha, 1993.
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