VIKBB01 History of Books and Libraries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Petr Voit, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Škyřík, Ph.D.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marie Hradilová
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 10:50–14:05 U32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students will gain a basic idea of ​​the modern conception of literary culture, from the point of view of literary process, internal and external structure of the book and the effect on the reader.
Syllabus
  • 1. The author, publisher, printer and bookseller in transformations of the centuries 2. Type foundry, typesetting and letterpress printing, the development of the printing press and printing technology from its origins to the modern printing. The importance of the printing press 3. Typing font (texture, rotunda, bastarda, gotikoantikva, Gothic, fracture, Antiqua) 4. Types and forms of documents (single-paper, code, monographs, convolute , beam work, addition, additional printing, overweight, administrative prints, commercial print, small print, broadside prints, superstitious prints, casual prints, block- book, picture book) 5. The structure of the book on the 15th to 19 century - the text (incipit, explicit, structure of the text, title page and its composition, frame parts) 6 The structure of the book on the 15th to 19 century - the decor and the image (line, bar, frame, border, frieze, vignette, frills, initials, signet, diagram, illustration, frontispiece) 7. The genre system (religious and secular genres of literature) and editorial program of the printeries 8. The Illustrations (technology, missions, development) 9. Bookbinding (technology, missions, development) 10. The beginnings of Czech typography and the formation of the readership 11. The effect of typography on the technique of reading 12. Books, libraries, provenance 13. Problems and perspectives in the field of "book culture "
Literature
    recommended literature
  • VOIT, Petr. Encyklopedie knihy : starší knihtisk a příbuzné obory mezi polovinou 15. a počátkem 19. století : papír, písmo a písmolijectví, knihtisk a jiné grafické techniky, tiskaři, nakladatelé, knihkupci, ilustrátoři a kartografové, literární. Druhé vydání. Praha: Libri ve spolupráci s Královskou kanonií premonstrátů na Strahově, 2008, Strana 656. ISBN 9788072773909. info
  • MANGUEL, Alberto. Dějiny čtení. Translated by Olga Trávníčková. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2007, 480 s. ISBN 9788072942312. info
  • BOHATCOVÁ, Mirjam. Česká kniha v proměnách staletí. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1990, 622 s. ISBN 80-7038-131-0. info
  • KOPECKÝ, Milan. Úvod do studia staročeských rukopisů a tisků. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1978, 179 s. URL info
  • FUNKE, Fritz. Buchkunde : ein Überblick über die Geschichte des Buch- und Schriftwesens. 2. verb. und erw. Aufl. Leipzig: VEB Verlag für Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, 1963. info
  • HORÁK, František. Česká kniha v minulosti a její výzdoba. 1. vyd. Praha: František Novák, 1948, 253 s. URL info
Teaching methods
The aim of the teaching method is to support abstract thinking of students: lectures will therefore be combined with guided discussions of the visual material.
Assessment methods
credit granted on the basis of a written test
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
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