FF:AEM_03g Medieval archaeology in Europe - Course Information
AEM_03g Medieval archaeology in Europe
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person. - Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Petr Hrubý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Mazáčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Rudolf Procházka, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Petr Hrubý, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- Passive knowledge of English and German language
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Goals: increase of the level on the themes raised in the compulsory lecture during the first cycle, which are complemented and expanded upon in a European-wide context and with an emphasis placed on archaeological-historical issues in medieval Europe and on familiarity with the academic literature.
- Learning outcomes (in Czech)
- Výstupem předmětu jsou rozšířené znalosti archeologie, ale i obecných reálií evropského mladšího středověku.
Student by měl být po absolvování předmětu schopen:
- orientovat se v reáliích a teoretických problémech archeologického studia mladšího středověku v evropském měřítku.
- zasadit témata, otázky a jevy, s nimiž se setkává v české medievistické archeologii, do širších evropských souvislostí. - Syllabus
- syllabus of lectures:
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- 1. The major features of the development of the medieval Europe in the 11th 15th century.
- 2. Development of Archeology of Younger Middle Ages in Europe.
- 3. Colonization, European upland settlement, formation of high medieval landscape in 11th to 13th century.
- - long process of colonization, recolonization, its repetition
- - Examples of the successful and the unsuccessful colonization mentioned in written sources (eg. Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau)
- - culture landscape in the lower Elbe region, which in the 13th century exceeds a fragmentary understanding: the oldest core Elbe River levees
- - Examples exhaustion landscape and the abandonment of settlements still in the Middle Ages in the lower Elbe region : Lüneburg Heath
- - Examples archeological and topographical study of the living and deserted medieval structures: Hercynian - Variscan uplands (Germany).
- - examples of exploitation and transformation of forest and landscape in the foothills of the Ore Mountains settlement in Wettin Meissen
- 4. rural settlement
- - methods and processing deserted villages and rural settlement in Europe
- - processes of abandonment of rural settlements
- - archaeological excavations of rural settlements
- 5. Technology and technical innovations from the West medieval Europe
- - heritage of Europe to the Middle Ages: cultural - civilizational and technological gap between the regions and areas erstwhile of Roman provinces and Barbaricum
- - innovation in construction and a short excursion architectural styles
- - innovations in mechanics
- - innovation in the exploitation of raw materials
- - innovations in metallurgy and iron founding, archaeologicl evidences
- - glass and glass prodaction: imports and somestic production
- 6. The genesis of so-called. Municipal cities in Europe
- 7. Archaeological evidences of European medieval towns
- 8. Urban centers of production and distribution of precious metals at 11th to 13th century in Western Europe, Imperial and the surrounding lands.
- - British Islands: Wales a SW_England, centres: Durham, Carlise etc.
- - French regions: closely related to the Imperium
- - Alpenraum (Trento)
- - Schwarzwald, Harz, Erzgebirge
- - Silesia nad Malopolska
- 9. Selected topics on trade and craft industries in Europe 11th and turn of 13th 14th century
- - land trade routes, river trade routes and sea trade routes
- - emporium/emporia of North Sea and Baltic coast, mixed as maritimes centers
- - River shipping of NW-Europe and the beginnings of Hansa
- - trade and finacial cenres of Italy: Venetia, Florencia regions
- - continental transit trade centers in Imperium - archaeological evidences (Norimberk, Passau, Erfurt)
- - exceptional role of iconography for studying medieval crafts and production
- - examples of best archaeologically processed sectors medieval craft production (excluding ceramics)
- 10. European castles and fortress
- - architecture and main elements in different part of Europe
- - local build production: Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, middle Europe, Byzantium
- 11. Castles of Levanta, Arabic castles and forttress, military impact
- - the influence of the Arab world on military architecture - warfare - Crusades and origin and rise of their states in Levant, Baltics
- – christianisations of pagan state in Younger medieval
- 12. Church structure and burials
- - church structure: WEST and EAST
- - monasteries and church orders – cohesion in Europe
- - architecture
- - burials: European standards and differences (for exmple: deviant burials,executed, kings burials, mass graves)
- Literature
- required literature
- Castles, siegeworks and settlements : surveying the archaeology of the twelfth century. Edited by Duncan W. Wright - O. H. Creighton. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016, xii, 167. ISBN 9781784914769. info
- LE GOFF, Jacques and Jean-Claude SCHMITT. Encyklopedie středověku. Edited by Franco Alessio, Translated by Lada Bosáková. Vyd. 3. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2014, 935 s. ISBN 9788074291302. info
- LE GOFF, Jacques. Kultura středověké Evropy. Vyd. 2., Ve Vyšehradu 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2005, 702 s. ISBN 8070218088. info
- LE GOFF, Jacques. Středověká imaginace. Translated by Irena Murasová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 329 s. ISBN 8072030744. info
- MORANT, Henry de and Gérald GASSIOT-TALABOT. Dějiny užitého umění : od nejstarších dob po současnost. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1983, 573 s. URL info
- recommended literature
- Deichmann, F. W., Einführung in die christliche Archäologie, Darmstadt 1983.
- Fehring, Günther, P., Einführung in die Archäologie des Mittelalters, Darmstadt 1987.
- Clarke, Helen, The Archaeology of Medieval England, London 1984.
- Boüard, M. de, Manuel d archéologie médiévale. De la fouille á ľ histoire, Paris 1975.
- Holl, Imre, Mittelalterarchäologie in Ungarn, Acta Arch ASH 22, 1970, 365-411.
- Dějiny Evropy. Edited by Frédéric Delouche - Hana Gelnarová - Jiří Úlovec, Translated by. Vyd. 2., dopl. a rozš. Praha: Argo, 2001, 416 s. ISBN 8072033174. info
- Teaching methods (in Czech)
- - přednášky
- řízená diskuse - Assessment methods
- Completion Requirements for the examination: - Basic orientation in the individual spheres of research in the branch - Knowledge of specialist literature, periodicals and outcomes of the work of significant researchers within the scope of the lecture and the assigned literature - Adequate participation in the work of the seminar - Presentation of the assigned papers
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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