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Poslední úprava: JOSIFKO (09.01.2008)
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Poslední úprava: JOSIFKO (09.01.2008)
Natural and historical conditions of Central Europe, the place of Bohemia and Moravia.Mountains, woods, river valleys and paths. The metals: gold and silver.
A short social history of Bohemia from the first mesolithic settlements through the periods of blossoming and of decay up to the Industrial revolution and modernity.
The birth of a nation: from tribes through monarchic kingdom to a political society.
The emergence of a political center: the Prague castle as the seat of both secular and religious power.
The commercial function: the Old town, its historical marketplaces and monuments.
The social function: liberty, mobility and the melting-pot. The emergence of the individual.Public places, public buildings, pubs and shops.
The religious function: the anatomy of a cathedral, the building styles and technologies, the development of the church.
The Jewish culture in Prague history, from the merchant settlement to the horrors of the Shoah. The historical Synagogue, the Jewish Museum, the Old and the New cemetery.
Religious orders as pioneers of internationality and their monasteries.
The living and the dead: the saints, the heroes and common mortals. Monuments, burials and cemeteries through the ages.
Development of the urban infrastructure: roads, defense, transport, water supply, waste disposal.
The river and the bridges: defense, transport, water and sewage.
The city walls, moats, fortresses and gates, the techniques of warfare and defense.
The city plan: from spontaneous growth to a planned network of roads and places, the influence of the ways of transportation.
Daily life in a city through the ages: standards of habitation, from the autonomous fortified house to rent housings and modern settlements.
The noblemen and their palaces: the Small side of Prague.
The gardens and the parks: the Italian, the French, the English garden-style, the role of the "artificial nature".
The craftsmen and the merchants: the emergence of the middle class. Servants, workers, civil servants: life conditions of the dependent and salaried.
The industry: industrial suburbs, factories, railway stations, workers, and housings.
The cultural establishments: the library, the theatre, the concert-hall, galleries and exhibitions.
The poor, the orphans, the handicapped, the sick: a short history of social care.
Various shapes and goals of education: the Greek "paidagogos" and the "scholé", the Cathedral school, Reformation and common literacy, the absolutist obligatory school, the educational goals of today.
The self-governing university as a paramount urban invention of the Middle Ages.
The role of languages in European history: growing importance of social communication,its limits and cultural diversity. The cultural nation: the belated awakening of East-European populations.
Prague as a multicultural heritage: the contributions of the Czechs, Germans and Jews, the traces of the Italians, English, Spaniards, French and Russians. The global influences: an American pub and a Vietnamese market.
On the advantages and drawbacks of having a rich history: the historical monuments care.
Trips:
Kutná Hora, 16th February Visit of the Ossuary (Bone chapel) in Sedlec, cathedral of St. Barbara, hike through historical center, UNESCO Heritage
Landscape protected area Bohemian Karst, 16th March Hike in forests and hills of Bohemian Karst (some 6 miles), natural history, archaeology,environmental issues, limestone quarrying, nature protection.
Český Krumlov and Linz (Austria), 12th-13th April Urban development and historical monuments of two important towns located along Czech-Austrian border, two-day trip, night in the vicinity of Český Krumlov
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Gordon Child: What Happened in History (or some other synthetic view of the history of human development)
Petr Cornej: The Fundamentals of Czech History
C. S. Fischer: The Urban Experience (or some other reading in Urban studies)
A. Ripellino: The Magic Prague |