Course: Nobility between Centre and Region in Early Modern Times

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Course title Nobility between Centre and Region in Early Modern Times
Course code UHV/SCR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
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
Several topics will be solved during the course: 1) Noble origin and noble titles in change; 2) Property and estates; 3) Careers between courts and lands; 4) Family and social nets; 5) Everyday and festive life, life style; 6) Nobility and memory.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The course deals with higher nobility (dukes, counts, barons) and their world from the Czech lands from the beginning of 16 to the half of 18 century. We will analyse the main sources of their social identity, that means their over generational sense of social exceptionality, noble titles, very big property and estates, careers, family background and life style between renaissance and baroque periods.
Students will gain basic knowledge about the change of nobility in the Central Europe between the beginning of the Habsburg rule and enlightment. They will learn to understand the nobility as a social exceptional class that co-ruled in the Habsburg monarchy. They will learn to compare different parts of the Habsburg monarchy and will understand the process of formating of the mighty over-national nobility that lived their cosmopolitan life style. However, on the other hand they did not loose their roots in concrete regions and in their estates.
Prerequisites
Students have to be aware of early modern political history and have to be able to read English and German.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

oral exam (list of at least 10 articles or monographs required)
Recommended literature
  • ASCH, Ronald G. Nobilities in Transition 1550-1700. Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe. London, 2003.
  • BŮŽEK, Václav ? HRDLIČKA, Josef ? KRÁL, Pavel ? VYBÍRAL, Zdeněk. Věk urozených. Šlechta v českých zemích na prahu novověku. Praha, 2001.
  • BŮŽEK, Václav a kol. Světy posledních Rožmberků. Praha, 2011.
  • CERMAN, Ivo. Šlechtické kultura v 18. století. Filozofové, mystici, politici. Praha, 2011.
  • EVANS, Robert J. W. Vznik habsburské monarchie 1550-1700. Praha, 2003.
  • HOLÝ, Martin. Zrození renesančního kavalíra. Výchova a vzdělávání šlechty z českých zemí na prahu novověku (1500-1620). Praha, 2010.
  • KNOZ, Tomáš. Pobělohorské konfiskace. Moravský průběh, středoevropské souvislosti, obecné aspekty. Brno, 2006.
  • KUBEŠ, Jiří. Trnitá cesta Leopolda I. za říšskou korunou (1657-1658). Volby a korunovace ve Svaté říši římské v raném novověku. České Budějovice, 2009.
  • MAŤA, Petr. Svět české aristokracie (1500-1700). Praha, 2004.
  • PEČAR, Andreas. Die Ökonomie der Ehre. Der höfische Adel am Kaiserhof Karls VI. (1711-1740). Darmstadt, 2003.
  • POLLEROSS, Friedrich B. Die Kunst der Diplomatie. Auf den Spuren des kaiserlichen Botschafters Leopold Joseph Graf von Lamberg (1653-1706). Petersberg, 2010.
  • PREISS, Pavel. František Antonín Špork a barokní kultura v Čechách. Praha a Litomyšl, 2003.
  • SMÍŠEK, Rostislav. Císařský dvůr a dvorská kariéra Ditrichštejnů a Schwarzenberků za vlády Leopolda I.. České Budějovice, 2009.
  • VALENTA, Aleš. Lesk a bída barokní aristokracie. České Budějovice, 2011.
  • WINKELBAUER, Thomas. Fürst und Fürstendiener: Gundaker von Liechtenstein, ein österreichischer Aristokrat des konfessionellen Zeitalters. Wien und München, 1999.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter