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Lecturer(s)
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Kubeš Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Czech lands in the Habsburg monarchy of the early modern period (political framework of cultural history) 2) The 20th century historiographical revolution and the search for new angles of history: the birth of cultural history 3) Population development in the Czech lands in the early modern period (demographic development and the role of economic crises and plague epidemics) 4) Honesty and social isolation: Majority society and the man on the margins of early modern society 5) Man in space and time in early modern society (the geographical horizon of early modern man, the phenomenon of borders, travel, the calendar) 6) The printing press, the post office, the birth of the newspaper: a media revolution in 17th century Central Europe? 7) The "Beccarian revolution" in criminal law and the man in conflict with the norms of pre-modern society 8) Early modern faith and piety in the Bohemian lands: from confessional coexistence through mono-confessional society to the birth of tolerance 9) The Council of Trent and belief in purgatory: forms of Baroque piety and their reflection in the Czech landscape (cults of saints and pilgrimages) 10) Food and dining in the Estates society of the early modern period (kitchens, cookbooks, menus, food, ritual food consumption, feasts) 11) Rites of passage and their function in early modern society (baptism, marriage, funerals) 12) Man and movement in the early modern period (birth of leisure time among the elites, social aspects of movement, "sportification" in the early modern period?)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Home preparation for classes
- 30 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 24 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 50 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 40 hours per semester
- Data/material collection
- 10 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this course is to outline the polarity of "big" (political and military) and "diminutive" (economic, social, cultural) history in the 16th - 18th centuries, focusing on the latter ones, since these surrender to fashionable methodological trends of the current day to a great extent (everyday history, historical anthropology, history of mentalities, micro-history, gender history). At the beginning, the impulses of Western European historiography are considered (especially French) and this is considered against concrete examples from the Czech lands.
The student should orientate in the alternative views on history of early modern times (history of everyday life and history of life styles of different social groups).
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
1) During the semester, each student will read at least ten titles (books or studies, it does not matter, but at least one title must be in a foreign language; ideally, the reading should be chosen so that each topic from the lectures corresponds to one title). Please ensure that the literature relates to the period 1500-1800. Literature can be found in the recommended textbook (see below, list after each chapter), in the database http://biblio.hiu.cas.cz, or directly in specialized journals for the early modern period (Opera Historica, Folia Historica Bohemica, Theatrum Historiae, etc. - many of them have articles available online). I recommend taking notes from the literature, about 1-3 pages long, summarizing the basic facts, which will then serve to help you remember better and prepare for the exam. Don't forget: while AI tools can shorten the content of a study, you have to be able to talk about it in the exam from memory, so I recommend reading everything thoroughly - it's not important to read ten 300-page books, you can easily read ten studies, each of which is 20 pages long, the most important thing is that you must be able to retell the content and understand the context. 2) At the end of the semester, there will be an individual oral exam: students will answer one of 10 questions (corresponding to the topics of lectures 3-12), followed by a discussion of the literature, a list of which students must send to the examiner by email (Jiri.Kubes@upce.cz) no later than one day before the exam.
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Recommended literature
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ARCANGELI, Alessandro. Cultural History: A Concise Introduction. Routledge, 2011.
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BĚLINA, Pavel - KAŠE, Jiří - KUČERA, Jan P. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české X, 1740-1792. Litomyšl: Praha, 2001.
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BĚLINA, Pavel - KAŠE, Jiří - MIKULEC, Jiří - VESELÁ, Irena - VLNAS, Vít. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české IX. 1683-1740. Litomyšl: Praha, 2011.
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BURKE, Peter. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Praha, 2004.
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BŮŽEK, Václav a kol. Společnost českých zemí v raném novověku. Struktury, identity, konflikty. Praha, 2010.
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BŮŽEK, Václav a kol. Věk urozených. Šlechta v českých zemích na prahu novověku. Litomyšl: Praha, 2002.
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ČORNEJOVÁ, Ivana - KAŠE, Jiří - MIKULEC, Jiří - VLNAS, Vít. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české VIII, 1618-1683. Litomyšl: Praha, 2008.
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KUBEŠ, Jiří - PRCHAL, Vítězslav. Dějiny každodennosti II, 1. díl (skripta), Univerzita Pardubice 2007-2015.
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MAŤA, Petr. Svět české aristokracie (1500-1700). Praha, 2004.
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MIKULEC, Jiří a kol. Církev a společnost raného novověku v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha, 2013.
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ostatní. nové knihy a studie po roce 1989 lze dohledat v bibliografické databázi http://biblio.hiu.cas.cz.
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PETRÁŇ, Josef a kol. Dějiny hmotné kultury II/1, Kultura každodenního života od 16. do 18. století. Praha, 1995.
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ŠEDIVÁ KOLDINSKÁ, Marie - CERMAN, Ivo a kol. Základní problémy studia raného novověku. Praha, 2013.
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van DÜLMEN, Richard. Historická antropologie. Praha, 2002.
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WIESNER, Merry E. Early modern Europe, 1450-1789. New York: Cambridge, 2013.
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