DU2021 Seminar: Pilgrim Routes and Medieval Identity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 14:00–17:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Introduction to a Pilgrimage Art: history and historiography, architecture, decoration and liturgy.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- critically think about the so-called "pilgrimage art";
- critically think towards historiography of this phenomenon;
- to present the essential monuments that are related to pilgrimage art in today's France between the XIIth and XIIIth s.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: pilgrimage as an intercultural phenomenon, the birth of the Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the pilgrimage to San Tiago ... 2. Lausanne's Cathedral 3. The Cathedral in Geneva 4. Pilgrims and Lyon 5. Le Puy 6. Conques I: Architecture and Decoration 7. Conques II: The Treasure 8. Nevers 9. Charité sur Loire 10. Saint Benoît sur Loire 11. Redens 12. Le Mont Saint Michel
Literature
    recommended literature
  • CHRISTE, Yves. Das Jüngste Gericht. Translated by Michael Lauble. 1. Aufl. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner. 215 s. ISBN 3795414221. 2001. info
  • CHRISTE, Yves. L'apocalypse de Jean : sens et développements de ses visions synthétiques. Paris: Picard. 271 s. ISBN 2708404830. 1996. info
    not specified
  • KESSLER, Herbert L. Afterword „Pilgrimage and Transformation.“. In Paul Davies, Deborah Howard, Wendy Pullan. Architecture and Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean World 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 231-241. ISBN 978-1-4724-1083-2. 2013. info
  • LARROCHE, Caroline and Olivier MOREL. L'art roman. [Paris?]: Éditions courtes et longues. 50 s. ISBN 9782352900306. 2007. info
  • SCHMITT, Éric-Emmanuel. Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art : roman. Paris: Albin Michel. 252 s. ISBN 9782253109587. 2007. info
  • BARRAL I ALTET, Xavier. Contre l'art roman? : essai sur un passé réinventé. [Paris]: Fayard. 415 s. ISBN 9782213608877. 2006. info
  • Art and architecture of late medieval pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. Edited by Sarah Blick - Rita Tekippe. Boston: Brill. xl, [261]. ISBN 9004123326. 2005. info
  • Encountering the sacredthe debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity. Edited by Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony. Berkeley: University of California Press. xv, 250 p. ISBN 0520241916. 2005. info
  • GABORIT, Jean-René, Jannic DURAND and Danielle GABORIT-CHOPIN. L'art roman au Louvre. Paris: Fayard. 238 s. ISBN 2350310205. 2005. info
  • Black pilgrimage to Islam. Edited by Robert Dannin. New York: Oxford University Press. x, 328 p. ISBN 0195147340. 2002. info
  • Initiation a l'art roman : architecture et sculpture. Edited by Anne Prache. Paris: Zodiaque. 238 s. ISBN 2736902882. 2002. info
  • Initiation a l'art roman :architecture et sculpture. Edited by Anne Prache. Paris: Zodiaque. 238 s. ISBN 2-7369-0288-2. 2002. info
Teaching methods
interactive lecture with images
Assessment methods
oral and written presentations
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.

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