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Course: Aristocratic Residences in the Czech Lands

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Course title Aristocratic Residences in the Czech Lands
Course code UHV/BARIS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kubeš Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Aristocracy and their property in the Early Modern Period. The role of a residence in the mind of the aristocracy in the Early Modern Period. Different uses of the residential system in the Early Modern Period. Aristocracy coming from Czech countries and their residential strategies in Vienna (1620-1740). Aristocratic residences in metropolises within Czech countries. Country residences belonging to the Czech and Moravian aristocracy. Development of a rooming unit in aristocratic residences of the Early Modern Period. Central representative premises of aristocratic residences. Premises dedicated to representation, arts and leisure-time activities. Religious premises in an aristocratic residence.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Methods of individual activities
  • Data/material collection - 5 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a final test - 20 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 25 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 25 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 24 hours per semester
  • Excursion - 4 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce the topic of residences of the aristocracy living in Bohemia and Moravia from the beginning of 16th to the middle of 18th century. It should by no means be understood as an exclusively art-historical course. Social history and social art-history considers such a space as a residence, i.e. as a place for the everyday and festal life of the aristocracy, whose noble birth, wealth and success differ in quality, as a place that hosts the whole aristocratic family as well as a court of different quantity.
Students will learn to understand the mentality and "competitive" way of thinking of early modern nobility. They will learn to know renaissance and baroque castles and palaces in the Czech lands and Vienna.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1) The written test focuses on the theory and on the recognition of aristocratic residences. 2) The short oral exam concerning the list of literature (at least five titles).
Recommended literature
  • BŮŽEK, Václav a kol. Věk urozených. Šlechta v českých zemích na prahu novověku. Praha: Litomyšl, 2002.
  • HOLASOVÁ, Andrea. Poznámky k problematice studia inventářů raněnovověkých šlechtických sídel jako jednoho z pramenů poznání kultury společnosti, in: Theatrum historiae 2, 2007, s. 109-122.
  • HORYNA, Mojmír - ZAHRADNÍK, Pavel - PREISS, Pavel. Černínský palác v Praze. Praha, 2001.
  • HORYNA, Mojmír. Valdštejnský palác v Praze. Praha, 2002.
  • HRBEK, Jiří. Proměny valdštejnské reprezentace: symbolické sítě valdštejnského rodu v 17. a 18. století. Praha, 2015.
  • IVANEGA, Jan. Hluboká: lovecký zámek Ohrada a schwarzenberská sídla na panství Hluboká nad Vltavou. Praha, 2014.
  • KOL. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění, II/1. Praha, 1989.
  • KUBEŠ, Jiří. Reprezentační funkce sídel vyšší šlechty z českých zemí (1500-1740), disertační práce FF JU. České Budějovice, 2005.
  • MAŤA, Petr. Svět české aristokracie (1500-1700). Praha, 2004.
  • PETRÁŇ, Josef a kol. Dějiny hmotné kultury II/1, Kultura každodenního života od 16. do 18. století. Praha, 1995.
  • PLEVA, Martin. Hmotná kultura moravské barokní šlechty ve světle pozůstalostních inventářů, Acta Mus. Moraviae, Sci. soc. 85, 2000, s. 131-155.
  • RYCHNOVÁ, Lucie. František Josef Šlik a česká barokní krajina. Život šlechtice na východočeském venkově. Praha, 2020.
  • SAMEK, Bohumil (ed.). Sál předků na zámku ve Vranově nad Dyjí. Brno, 2003.
  • ŠIMŮNEK, Robert. Obraz šlechtického panství v Čechách 1500-1750. Praha, 2018.


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