UHVM1014 Introduction to Study of Material Culture

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ing. Jaromír Olšovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ing. Jaromír Olšovský, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
The fundamental orientation in the history of the Middle-Ages and Early modern period in the Czech lands, the knowledge of the basic terms from the art history, material culture and the history of everyday life.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of one-semester lecture series is to make acquaintance of students with the problems of study of material artifacts that form the basis for a wide formulated history of material culture. After the necessary introduction to the topic and outline of methodological approaches and challenges follow the lectures that focus on various aspects of material culture and everyday life of the medieval and early modern society in the Central European context. Deeper attention is paid to various aspects of everyday life in the spiritual and material culture related, whether religious or profane ritual with various aspects of everyday life such as business, trades, guilds, housing, meals, etc.
Syllabus
  • 1. Methodological aspects and problems dealing with the history of material culture and everyday life.
    2. Characteristics of material culture and everyday life from the 13th to the end of the 15 century.
    3. Basic concepts of the Christian liturgy, the basic concepts of the spiritual culture of the Middle Ages, church and monastic organization in our countries till the Hussite wars.
    4. The basic characteristics of religious orders in our country till the 15th century, their role in colonization and urbanization, organization of monasteries, orders of knighthood.
    5. The basic types of monastic settlements with examples, the basic layout and structure of the monastery.
    6. Social division of nobility, stately homes - building types, building development, types of royal castles and their development until the end of the Gothic period with examples, the basic structural and functional concepts of castellology.
    7. Origins and types of cities, urban law, urban culture, guilds, their formation, structure, organization and material culture associated with guilds, town houses and its transformation to the end of the late Gothic period.
    8. Churches in the country, characteristics, building development, its role in the life of village society, the basic arrangement of the presbytery of country church, types of country house.
    9. Medieval building works, organization and characteristic activities, basic personalities employed in Bohemian lands (Matthias of Arras, Henry Parler, Benedict Rejt) and their buildings.
    10. Rituals of feudal power (enthronement, insignia, coronation, the Imperial and Bohemian constitutional jewelry).
    11. Town and country in the early modern period, equipment of aristocratic residence in the period from the 16th till the 18th centuries, equipment, and urban houses in the 16th - 18th centuries, and urban material culture of the early modern period, guilds and crafts.
    12. Churches, monasteries and pilgrimage sites in the early modern period, the spiritual currents of modern times and their connection with material culture, baroque festivities.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Středověký člověk a jeho svět (ed. Jacques Le Goff). Praha 1999. a. info
  • Dějiny hmotné kultury I/1-2, II./1-2 (ed. Josef Petráň). Praha 1. a. info
  • Milan Buben. Encyklopedie heraldiky. Světská a církevní titulatura a reálie. Praha 1994. info
  • Jacques Le Goff - Jean-Claude Schmitt (ed.),. Encyklopedie středověku. Praha 2008. info
  • Michail M. Bachtin. Francois Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance. Praha 1975. info
  • Tomáš Durdík. Hrady kastelového typu 13. století ve střední Evropě. Praha 1998. info
  • Emanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Karneval v Romansu. Praha, Argo 2001. info
  • Pavel Spunar. Kultura českého středověku. Praha 1985. info
  • Jacques Le Goff. Kultura středověké Evropy. Praha 1991. info
  • Ferdinand Seibt. Lesk a bída středověku. Praha 2000. info
  • Bronisław Geremek. Slitování a šibenice. Dějiny chudoby a milosrdenství. Praha 1999. info
  • Jean Delumeau. Strach na Západě ve 14. - 18. století. Praha, Argo. info
  • Jean-Claude Schmitt. Svět středověkých gest. Praha 2004. info
  • Carlo Ginzburg. Sýr a červi. Svět jednoho mlynáře kolem roku 1600. Praha, Argo 2000. info
  • Georges Duby. Věk katedrál. Umění a společnost 980 - 1420. Praha, Argo 2002. info
  • Peter Burke. Žebráci, šarlatáni, papežové. Historická antropologie raně novověké Itálie. Eseje o vnímání a komunikaci. H&H 2007. info
Assessment methods
Grade
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Successful completion of the exam.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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