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Lecturer(s)
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Drška Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Gens and regnum. Basic problems of the transformation of traditional communities in early medieval governance. 2. Fief, vassalage and the Middle Ages. Sources of contemporary debate on the existence, nature and form of the beneficiary-fief system. 3. Imperium and sacerdotium. The nature of medieval universalism and its philosophical, theological, cultural and educational roots. 4. Imago mundi. Cosmographic and geographical ideas in medieval culture. 5. Physical being and forms of medicine in medieval society. 6. Magic, necromancy and the tradition of forbidden teachings in the mirror of medieval sources.
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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 has two basic objectives: To deepen students? knowledge of current trends in medieval studies and to strengthen their methodological or craft skills. At the same time, it attempts to introduce students to more advanced methods of historical research with an emphasis on interdisciplinary overlap towards linguistics and selected parts of literary theory. Students will be introduced to selected issues in medieval history. The selection is conceived taking into account current scholarly discourse, but essentially arbitrarily from the perspective of the instroctors. The course contains two main parts: a presentation of a problem in the historiographical debate, where the form of a lecture prevails, and a presentation of a problem as it appears in source analysis and interpretive possibilities, where mainly proseminar working methods will be used.
After completing the course, the student will deepen their knowledge of the current state of research in the field of ancient history and the key aspects of its professional discourse. The student will deepen their craft, methodological and heuristic skills. They will consolidate their skills in the prodoctuion of a scholarly text.
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Prerequisites
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Passive knowlege of at least one foreign language, Englisch or German.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Study of the primary literature, knowledge of the source base and critical-analytical and interpretive procedures. Based on the mastery of both, the preparation of a seminar paper with standard professional apparatus in the scope of about 10 standard pages.
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Recommended literature
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