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Historical Geography and Cartography - OB2305366

Title:	Historická geografie a kartografie
Guaranteed by:	Katedra dějin a didaktiky dějepisu (41-KDDD)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2022
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Explanation:	Rok 1
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Magdaléna Pokorná, CSc.
Classification:	Teaching > History

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Annotation -

Last update: SKOPEK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (24.10.2014)

This subject is taught in Czech. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the issues, what are discussed in the domain of the historical cartography and geography, to learn them how to work with old maps and to bring them to an understanding of the phenomenon of the "travelling" in history.

Aim of the course -

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (21.05.2019)

The course introduces the students to principal methodical and research issues regarding historical geography and cartography, guides them to use old maps as historical sources, and acquaints them with the multifaceted phenomenon of travels and voyages in the course of history.

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (21.05.2019)

Literature:

HONZÁK, F. - PEČENKA, M. - VLČKOVÁ, J. Evropa v proměnách staletí. Praha: Libri, 1995.

HUMPHREYS, A. Staré mapy. Praha: Kartografie, 1992.

KAŠPAR, J. Vybrané kapitoly z historické kartografie a nauka o mapách, Praha: FF UK Praha, 1990.

ROUBÍK, F. Soupis map českých zemí 1-2. Praha: ČSAV, 1951-1955.

SEMOTANOVÁ, E. Kartografie v historické práci. Praha: Historický ústav AVČR, 1994.

SEMOTANOVÁ, E. Historická geografie českých zemí. Praha: Historický ústav AVČR, 2002.

Teaching methods -

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (21.05.2019)

Lectures, seminars, oral presentations.

Syllabus -

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (21.05.2019)

Lectures:

1. Introduction to the subject (development of the discipline, its major representatives and institutions, principal primary sources, current issues).

2. Man and landscape in history.

3. Territorial development of the Bohemian lands with respect to Central Europe from the Early Middle Ages up to the latest period.

4. Exploration of the world, colonialism, the rearrangement of the world order.

5. Historical cartography in Europe.

6. Old maps of Bohemian lands from 16th century onwards.

Seminars:

1. Physical geography of the Bohemian lands.

2. Settlement of the Bohemian lands in historical perspective.

3. The origins and development of transportation in the Bohemian lands.

4. Travellers and their reports and diaries I

5. Travellers and their reports and diaries II

6. Working with old maps, critical analysis and interpretation