Basic problems and methods of studying medieval culture - ASS600002
Title: Základní problémy a metody studia středověké kultury (vědy o umění a kultuře; filozofie, religionistika a teologie, hudba)
Guaranteed by: Institute of Archaeology (21-UPRAV)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. David Eben, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Daniel Boušek, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Dienstbier, Ph.D., Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. David Eben, Ph.D.
PhDr. Jan Klípa, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Klír, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Michaela Ottová, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Pavel Sládek, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ivo Štefan, Ph.D.
Anna Tropia, Ph.D.
PhDr. Milan Žonca, Ph.D.
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Annotation -


1.-2. Art, form, meaning (Michaela Ottová, Jan Dienstbier et al.)

- From stylistic morphology to formal analysis

- Functions of style

- Iconography and iconology

- Semiotic approaches

- Mediality of medieval art



3.- 4. Liturgy and Art (David Eben, Jan Klípa, Jan Dienstbier)

- spatial framework, visual elements

- performativity – rhythm, "consuetudines", basic structure of the ceremonies

- space and sound – liturgical repertoire



5. The Book as Piece of Art (David Eben, Pavel Sládek, Jan Dienstbier)

materiality, function (visual)

decoration, writing

liturgical book, musical notation



6.-7. Mentality and religiosity (Anna Tropia)

- anthropology, metaphysics and psychology in the Middle Ages

- main philosophical movements - Aristotelianism and Platonism, scholasticism in the 13th and 14th centuries - the relationship between philosophy and theology



8. Culture of minorities (Daniel Boušek, Milan Žonca)

- main centres of Jewish culture (Ashkenaz, Sefarad)

- visual culture of the Jewish minority

- encounters and polemics between cultures: Islam-Judaism-Christianity



9.-10. Culture and art of social elites (David Eben, Michaela Ottová, Jan Dienstbier)

- visual culture (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.)

- music - court lyrics, court "bands" in the late Middle Ages



11. Materiality of the city and the countryside (Tomáš Klír)

- urbanism and settlement forms

- everyday life, economy, social profile

- landscape



12. Small material culture and its context (Jan Dienstbier, Tomáš Klír, Ivo Štefan)

- objects of material culture: ceramics, glass, metal objects, etc., heating devices, stoves and tiles



Předmět může být vyučován v angličtině, a to v závislosti na rozhodnutí garanta (tomu bude odpovídat i personální zajištění – u uvedené osnovy je vždy minimálně jeden vyučující zajišťující případnou výuku v angličtině).

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Requirements for the exam:

1. A written work (approximately 2000 words in length) on a certain topic related to the issues discussed. This work will be submitted to the chosen instructor.

2. Defense of the written work – in the presence of at least two instructors.

3. An oral discussion on the reading list (immediately following the defense, with the same instructors present).

 

 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
Literature -


Graham-Campbell, J. A. – Klápšte, J. 2011 (eds.): The Archaeology of Medieval Europe. 2: Twelfth to Sixteenth centuries. Århus.

Valor Piechotta, M. – Graham-Campbell, J. A. 2007: The archaeology of medieval Europe. 1: Eighth to twelfth centuries AD. Århus.

Klápště, J. 2012: The Czech lands in medieval transformations. Turnout.

Klápště, J. 2016: The archaeology of Prague and the medieval Czech lands, 1100-1600. Jan Klápště. Sheffield : Equinox.

 

Adam, A.: Grundriss Liturgie, Freiburg 2018.

Gittos, H. – Hammilton, S. 2019 (eds.): Understanding Medieval Liturgy. Essays in Interpretation. Abingdon: Routledge 2019.

Hiley, D. 1993: Western Plainchant: a Handbook, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1993.

Fassler, M. 2014: Music in the Medieval West, London – New York: Norton 2014.

 

Adamson, P. 2019: A History of Philosophy without Any Gaps. Medieval Philosophy, OUP, 2019

De Boer,  S.W. 2013: The Science of the Soul. The Commentary Tradition on Aristotle’s De anima, c. 1260-1360. Leuven University Press, 2013

Pasnau, R. 1998: Theories of Cognition in Later Middles Ages. OUP 1998

Pasnau, R. (ed) 2009-10: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge 2009-2010

Hyman, et al. (eds) 2010: Philosophy in the Middle Ages. The Christian, Islamic and Jewish Tradition, Hackett Publishing Company, 2010 (3rd edition)

Lopez-Farjeat, L. X. 2022: Classical Islamic Philosophy. A Thematic Introduction, Taylor and Francis, 2022

 

Chazan, Robert, Jews of medieval western christendom, 1000-1500. Cambridge, 2006.

Chazan, Robert, ed.  The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume VI, The Middle Ages: The Christian World  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Kogman-Appel, Katrin, „Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition“, The Art Bulletin 84/2 (2002): 246–72.

Mark Cohen, Under crescent and cross, Princeton 1994.

Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava, Intertwined Worlds. Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Liebermann, Phillip I. ed.  The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume V, The Medieval Islamic World  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

 

 
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)