| Course title | Man and Nature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times |
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| Course code | KHI/KV127 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. The concept of environmental history, prominent historians, the Annales school 2. Ancient and medieval authors writing about nature - Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Thomas Aquinas, Late Scholasticism, Renaissance (Galileo, Descartes) 3. Relationshop between people and nature in the Middle Ages - historical landscape, agriculture, epidemics, famine, disease 4. Sources for regional environmental - historical research - written records, iconographic and cartographic sources - possibilities and limits of use 5. Research methods - work with archival/pictorial, written/material, interdisciplinary ccoperation - dendrochronology, archaelogical methods, geographical methods - work with map documetns, DPZ, GIS
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course focuses on the interaction of people and nature around them in the Middle Ages and early modern period. During the course, students will be introduced to the development of perceptions of nature from late antiquity to the early modern period through selected authors. The perspective of historians (e.g., the Annales school) on the interaction between humans and nature will be reflected. The course will also present the methods and sources with wich such environmental-historical research can be carried out.
Student after completing the course: (a) understands the concept of environmental history and is familiar with the works of key historians (b) has an understanding of the changes in contemporary perceptions of human-nature interaction (c) is able to analyse a selected author?s view of human-nature interaction and place it in a contemporary context (d) has an idea of the source base for enviromental-historical research and knows the possibilities and limits of using these sources (e) has an overview of the methods of working in enviromental-historical research and the theoretical possibilities of their use (f) is familiar with the contents of selected old maps and is able to compare them in a simple way between maps |
| Prerequisites |
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None
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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