Course: The Chapters of Culture of War

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Course title The Chapters of Culture of War
Course code UHV/MKDV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Prchal Vítězslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Stimulating activities (simulation, games, drama)
  • Independent critical reading - 47 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 50 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 26 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance assessment, Discussion

Recommended literature
  • BARKER, T. M. Army, Aristocracy, Monarchy. Essays on War, Society and Government in Austria 1618 - 1780. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
  • BLACK, J. A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society, 1550 - 1800. Hampsire-London: Humanities Press International, 1991.
  • BREWER, J. The Sinews of Power. War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. London: Century Hutchinson, 1988.
  • DUFFY, Ch. Kámen a oheň. Bastionová pevnost, její vznik a vývoj v dějinách pevnostního válečnictví. Brno: Books Bonus a ? Memorabilia, 1998.
  • ELIAS, N. Die höfische Gesellschaft. Berlin: Neuwied, 1969.
  • GAT, A. The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightement to Clausewitz. Ofxord: Clarendon Press, 1989.
  • Geertz, C.:. Interpretace kultur: Vybrané eseje. Praha 2000..
  • GLETE, J. War and the State in Early Modern Europe. Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • GODSEY, W. D. The Sinews of Habsburg Power. Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • HANLON, G. The Twilight of Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560 - 1800. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988.
  • HOCHEDLINGER, M. Austria?s Wars of Emergence 1683-1797. London: Pearson Education Limited, 2003.
  • HOWARD, M. Válka v evropské historii.. Brno, 1997.
  • KEEGAN, J. Historie válečnictví. Vývoj válečnictví od ritualizovaných kmenových bojů doby kamenné až po destruktivní masové války v moderní době.. Praha, 2003.
  • KEEGAN, J. The Face of Battle: a study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. London: Pimlico, 2004.
  • Kol. Vojenské dějiny Československa II. Praha, 1986.
  • LYNN, John A. Battle. History of Combat and Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
  • MAŤA, P. Svět české aristokracie (1500-1700). Praha, 2004.
  • MENZEL, T. Der Fürst als Feldherr. Militärisches Handeln und Selbstdarstellung zwischen 1470 und 1550. Dargestellt an ausgewählten Beispielen. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2003.
  • MURRAY, W. ? KNOX, M. (edd.). The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Parker, Geoffrey. Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-300-15323-1.
  • Parrott, David. The business of war : military enterprise and military revolution in early modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-521-73558-2.
  • ROGERS, C. J. (ed.). The Military Revolution Debate. Readigs on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe. Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1995.
  • STORRS. Ch. (ed). The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Essays in Honour of P. G. M. Dickson. Farnham ? Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.
  • TRIM, D. J. B. (ed.). The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism. Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2003.
  • WOHLMUTH, P. Krev, čest a hrůza. Historická antropologie pevnostní války na příkladu britských deníků z obléhání pevnosti Bergen op Zoom z roku 1747. Praha, 2017.
  • WREDE, M. Ohne Furcht und Tadel ? Für König und Vaterland. Frühneuzeitliche Hochadel zwischen Familienehre, Ritterideal und Fürstendienst. Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2012.


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