Course: History of the Czech early modern period

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Course title History of the Czech early modern period
Course code KHI/RBH21
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrubá Michaela, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Koumar Jiří, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The Habsburgs on the Czech throne. The pre-White Mountain Estates Monarchy and the preconditions for the Thirty Years' War, the second Estates uprising, the Czech lands in the Thirty Years' War, and the evaluation of the Battle of White Mountain by historiography to date 2. The consequences of the Thirty Years' War and the Czech lands (reflection in the source base); population development in the Czech lands from the 17th to the 19th century 3. Lords and serfs (with a focus on changes in the status of the rural serf population from the end of the Thirty Years' War to 1848) 4. Religious and cultural conditions in the 17th and 18th centuries 5. The "age of absolutism" in the Habsburg Monarchy. The application of the principles of absolutism in Central Europe with a focus on the Czech lands; enlightened absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Czech lands 6. Proto-industrialization and industrialization in the Czech lands

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on the period of Czech history from the accession of the Habsburgs to the Czech throne to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, i.e. the period of the so-called early modern period. The focus is not only on the course of political history and events, but also on issues and aspects of economic, social and cultural development. The chronological limitation therefore represents only a framework basis; it is necessary to take into account more extensive historical stages and overlaps (e.g. aspects of population development, the development of the social structure of the population of the Czech lands, etc.). The main aim of this part of the course is to introduce students to the main problems of the history of this period in the broader context of the history of the entire Habsburg Monarchy and Central Europe. This concerns, in particular, foreign policy, with its implications for internal conditions, and tracing the uneven and specific development of the various parts of the Habsburg monarchy. The nature of the influence of the Viennese court and of the individual Habsburg monarchs, which naturally had a fundamental impact on the development of the Bohemian Crown in the historical period under review, will also be examined.
Graduates of the course demonstrate knowledge of the complex historical development of the early modern period in the Czech lands. They are able to clearly characterize the main developmental trends and explain the processes and phenomena of the period in the context of current historiography. At a specific level, they reliably define key concepts of the period under review and are able to explain and justify them in terms of spatial and chronological context. The development of the Czech lands is also extended to include knowledge of the overall context of the development of the Habsburg Monarchy and other Central European countries. The overall framework is then formed by relating the early modern development of the Czech lands to the main trends and focal points of overall European and world development.
Prerequisites
Recommended completion of History of the Czech Middle Ages.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit - written test, presentation and processing of a selected topic (seminar paper), active participation in seminar teaching (discussion of selected topics, processing of ongoing tasks), attendance Exam - oral examination (characteristics of the issue selected on the basis of two questions, reflection on selected titles from the submitted reading)
Recommended literature
  • Bělina,P. a kol. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české XI a,b 1792-1860. Litomyšl, 2013.
  • Bělina,P.- Kaše,J.- Mikulec,J.- Veselá,I.- Vlnas,J. Veliké dějiny zemí Koruny české,IX 1683-1740. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80--7432-105-.
  • Bůžek, V. - Král, P. Člověk českého raného novověku. Praha, 2007.
  • Bůžek V. a kol. Společnost českých zemí v raném novověku (struktury, identity konflikty). Praha, 2010.
  • Čornejová, I. - Kaše, J. - Mikulec, J. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české VIII. 1618-1683. Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7185-947-5.
  • Evans, R. J. W. Vznik habsburské monarchie 1550?1700. Praha, 2003.
  • Fialová, L. a kol. Dějiny obyvatelstva českých zemí. Praha, 1996.
  • Hledíková, Z. - Janák J. - Dobeš, J. Dějiny správy v českých zemích od počátku státu po současnost. Praha, 2007.
  • Hrbek, J. Evropa a absolutismus v 17. a 18. století (1648?1789). Praha, 2012.
  • Hroch, M. Národy nejsou dílem náhody. Praha, 2009.
  • Jakubec, I. - Jindra, Z. Dějiny hospodářství českých zemí od počátku industrializace do konce habsburské monarchie. Praha, 2006.
  • Janáček, J. České dějiny I/1,2. Doba předbělohorská 1526-1547. Praha, 1968.
  • kol. autorů. Dějiny Rakouska. Praha, 2002.
  • Koldinská, M. - Cerman, I. a kol.. Základní problémy studia raného novověku. Praha, 2013.
  • PETR VOREL. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Svazek 7, 1526 - 1618. Praha, 2005. ISBN 80-7185-648-7.
  • Petráň, J. Dějiny hmotné kultury II/1-2.. Praha, 1995.
  • Vorel, P. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české, sv. VII, 1526-1618. Praha, 2005.
  • Winkelbauer, T. Österreichische Geschichte 1522?1699. Ständefreiheit und Fürstenmacht- Länder und Untertanen des Hauses Habsburg im konfessionellen Zeitalter I? II. Wien, 2003.


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