Course: Paleography I

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Course title Paleography I
Course code UHV/PALE1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Marek Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Palaeography. Mastering practically written documents from the 19th and 20th centuries. German or other foreign language documents.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Methods of individual activities, Skills training
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to orient students in texts that originated between the 18th and 20th centuries; therefore, stress will be put on a knowledge of modern Latin palaeography and its development. The main aim of this course, given by its seminar nature, will be to teach the students read basic types of texts that originated in the area of the current Czech Republic from the 16th to the 20th centuries, including sources of personal nature (such as correspondence, diaries, etc.). It will also consider a great number of register, insurance and inter-institutional materials (land-registers, lists of inhabitants, registry offices, urbars, land books, construction agreements, inheritance inventories, bills and others). These archival sources are, for the given period, usually written in various forms of neo-gothic type (in Czech and German) and later also in various forms of humanistic type (at first in Roman languages, later also in Czech and finally in German). During this course, stress will be put on acquisition of variants of Czech and German neo-gothic type, because the reading of this type causes most of the difficulties for people who are not trained to do so.
Students will learn to read basic kinds of documents from 16 to 20 century. They will mainly master the so called neogothic script both in Czech and German because people in the Czech lands wrote with this script from 16 century up to 1941!
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Discussion

Credit is dependent on the student bringing a transcription of about 10 pages of a chosen modern source in the Czech language from SOkA Pardubice funds or any other archive (this will be specified during consultations with the lecturer). Half of the students will prepare a short abstract in this term. Furthermore, at the end of the term an interview will take place, during which the student must demonstrates an ability to read the different types of writings discussed in the seminars.
Recommended literature
  • čítanka. http://pvh.ff.cuni.cz/paleografie/welcome.htm (paleografická čítanka on-line).
  • čítanka. http://uhv.upce.cz/cs/paleograficka-citanka/ (paleografická čítanka prof. P. Vorla).
  • FRIEDRICH, G. Rukověť křesťanské chronologie. Praha, 1997.
  • HLAVÁČEK, I.; KAŠPAR, J.; NOVÝ, R. Vademecum pomocných věd historických. Praha, 1994.
  • HLEDÍKOVÁ, Z.; KAŠPAR, J. Paleografická čítanka. Praha, 2000.
  • KAŇÁK, B. Paleografické texty, Sešit č. 1-2, Olomouc 1994, 1999.
  • KAŠPAR, J. Novogotické písmo v Čechách v letech 1500-1750, AUC, Philosophica et historica 3-4, 1971, s. 111-159.
  • KAŠPAR, J. Soubor statí o novověkém písmu. Praha, 1993.
  • KAŠPAR, J. Školní písmo v Čechách v letech 1774-1932, Sborník Národního muzea v Praze, řada C, 17, 1972, s. 57-86. Praha, 1972.
  • KAŠPAR, J. Úvod do novověké latinské paleografie se zvláštním zřetelem k českým zemím, 1-2. Praha, 1987.
  • KOL. Dějiny zemí Koruny české I. a II., Praha 1992..
  • PÁTKOVÁ, H. Česká středověká paleografie, České Budějovice 2008.
  • POLÁK, S. Studium novověkého písma. Problémy paleografie, Vlastivědný sborník Podbrdska 7, 1973, s. 3-154.
  • ŠEBÁNEK, J. Pomocné vědy historické I. Paleografie. Učební texty VŠ, Praha, 1966.


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): Documental and Archival Services (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter