Course: PALAEOGRAPHY I

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Course title PALAEOGRAPHY I
Course code KHI/PLG1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Němec Jan, Mgr.
Course content
Topics of seminars: 1. Overview of the development of Antique and Middle Age Latin script, terminology. 2. Periodization of Latin script; the origination of Latin alphabet and the beginning of Roman script. 3. Roman script until 1000 AD. 4. National scripts. 5. Caroline and Diplomatic minuscule. 6. Gothic script - Gothic minuscule. 7. Gothic script - Bastarda 8. Gothic script - Cursive. 9. The script of the Bohemian imperial charters of the 13th and 14th century. Systems of abbreviations I. 10. Book script of the 13th and 14th century. Systems of abbreviations II. 11. Writing of administrative books of the 13th and 14th century. Writing of numerals. 12. Bastarda I. 13. Bastarda II. Topics of seminars: 1. The script of incunables. 2. Humanist script. 3. Neo-Gothic script - origin, preconditions of further development, territorial spread. 4. Neo-Gothic script - names and terminology. 5. Overview of the study of Modern Age Latin script. 6. Neo-Gothic script in Czech Lands. 7. Morphology of Neo-Gothic Cursive. 8. Neo-Gothic script in the 16th and 17th century in German texts. 9. Neo-Gothic script in the 16th and 17th century in Czech texts. 10. Neo-Gothic script in the 17th and 18th century in German texts. 11. Neo-Gothic script in the 17th and 18th century in Czech texts. 12. Neo-Gothic script of the 19th century in German texts. 13. Printed Neo-Gothic script in German texts.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Palaeography I: Introduces the development and main types of Latin writing until the end of Middle Age and teaches the basics of reading scripts in which Middle Age texts are written in Czech Lands until the beginning of the 16th century. Development of Latin palaeography until the beginning of Modern Age, its periodization, types of script and managing the basics of reading the diplomatic and literary texts of 12th to 15th century. Palaeography II: In the second semester the course introduces the development of neo-Gothic and humanist script and practically teaches the basics of reading these scripts which were used in Czech Lands from the beginning of the 16th to 20th century. The student should acquire the development of Latin palaeography from the beginning of the Modern Age until the second half of 20th century and learn the necessary knowledge for reading and interpretation of texts written in neo-Gothic German italics.
Palaeography I: The student acquires knowledge of palaeographical terminology, writing inks and terminology of various kinds of Latin script from 500 BC till the 15th century; the development and periodization of Latin script and basic circumstances which formed this development; basic types of this script (Latin Majuscule, Square Capital, Rustic Capital, Actuarial script; Capital bastarda, Old and New Roman Cursive, Imperial Cursive; Uncial and Half-uncial; Old and New Curial writing; book script of Old Italy and Benventan and Casinense; Lombardic, Visigothic and Merovingian; Irish and Anglo-Saxon Half-uncial and Minuscule; Caroline Minuscule, Diplomatic Minuscule and Gothic Minuscule; Bastarda); differentiation and periodization of Gothic Minuscule (basic, decorative, general, bastarda and cursive. The student acquires abilities: to recognize and describe single basic types of Latin script; reading, transliteration and transcription of the readable gothic minuscule and cursive; understanding, reading and itemization of the abbreviations of Caroline and Gothic minuscule; managing methods which help to improve and deepen the basic knowledge from reading of the legible Gothic Minuscule and Cursive. Palaeography II: The student acquires knowledge of: terminology of the Latin script from 15th century till the beginning of the 20th century, including basic types of printed script; the development, periodization and basic circumstances forming the development of the humanistic and Neo-Gothic script (script drawn, cursive and bastarda; neo-Gothic and humanistic bastarda and cursive). The student acquires abilities: to analyze a script from the point of morphology, modelling and genetics; to actively manage the ductus of the minuscule and majuscule characters of the standardized neo-Gothic cursive at the turn of the 19th and 20th century; safe and comfortable reading of medium-difficulty neo-Gothic cursive.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basics of Latin, good knowledge of German language.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit tests - transliteration of a text written in Gothic script and in Neo-Gothic cursive.
Recommended literature
  • RAK, Petr. Paleografie I. a II. Elektronická studijní opora pro studenty se specifickými vzdělávacími potřebami . Ústí nad Labem, 2013.


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