FF:HIB0392 Courts in Late Middle Ages

HIB0392 Courts and Residences in Late Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Eva Richtrová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 16:40–18:15 B21

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Podmínkou zápisu je dobrá pasivní znalost němčiny.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

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Course objectives

This course focuses on the origins and the recent research status of medieval courts and residences (especially on the methodological aspects of research), how to undertake this topic as a historical-sociological phenomena and the potentional approaches, which a historian may use in the research. Specific examples of such courts and residences of secular and clerical aristocracy (not only) from the czech territory will be provided.

Syllabus

1. The theory of the „court“ – various research approaches
2. „Court“ and „power“ – fundamental questions. „Power“ as a sociological phenomena
3. Court as a social system
4. Courts of the secular aristocracy
5. Courts of the clerical aristocracy
6. What is a „residence“? The methodological definition of the research problem
7. The theory of „central places“
8. The bishop towns, bishop residences and conflicts in bishop towns in the late middle ages
9. Residences of the aristocracy in the middle Europa
10. Perspectives and specifics of the czech research

Literature

• Patze, Hans – Paravicini, Werner (eds.): Fürstliche Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Europa, Sigmaringen 1991 (Vorträge und Forschungen Band 36)
• Paravicini, Werner (ed.), bearb.von J.Hirschbiegel und J.Wettlaufer: Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Ein dynastisch – topographisches Handbuch, Teilband I:Dynastien und Höfe (Residenzenforschung Bd.15.1, Teilband I.),Göttingen 2003
• Paravicini, Werner – Wettlaufer, Jörg (eds.): Der Hof und die Stadt. Konfrontation, Koexistenz und Integration in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Göttingen 2006 (Residenzenforschung Band 20)
• Paravicini, Werner (ed.), bearbeitet von Jan Hirschbiegel – Jörg Wettlaufer: Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Bilder und Begriffe, Teilband II.: Bilder, Göttingen 2005 (Residenzenforschung Band 15.2, Teilband II.)
• Grieme, Uwe – Kruppa, Nathalie – Pätzold, Stefan (eds.): Bischof und Bürger. Herrschaftsbeziehungen in den Kathedralstädten des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters, Göttingen 2004 (Veröffentlich. des M.-Planc-Inst.für Gesch.Bd.206, Stud.zur Germania Sacra Bd.26
• Kruse, Holger – Paravicini, Werner (eds.): Höfe und Hofordnungen 1200-1600. 5. Symposium der Residenzen-Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Sigmaringen 1999 (Residenzenforschung Band 10)
• Paravicini, Werner (ed.), Alltag bei Hofe, Sigmaringen 1995 (Residenzenforschung 5)
• Hirschbiegel, Jan – Paravicini, Werner (eds.): Der Fall des Günstlings. Hofparteien in Europa vom 13. bis zum 17. Jahrh. 8.Symposium der Residenzen-Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Ostfildern 2004 (Residenzenforschung 17)
• Paravicini, Werner (ed.), bearbeitet von Jan Hirschbiegel – Jörg Wettlaufer: Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Bilder und Begriffe, Teilband I: Begriffe, Göttingen 2005 (Residenzenforschung Band 15.2, Teilband I.).
• Butz, Reinhard – Hirschbiegel, Jan – Willoweit, Dietmar (eds.): Hof und Theorie. Annäherung an ein historisches Phänomen, Köln u.a. 2004 (Norm und Struktur Bd. 22)
Paravicini, Werner (ed.), bearbeitet von J.Hirschbiegel und J.Wettlaufer: Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Ein dynastisch – topographisches Handbuch, Teilband II.: Residenzen. (Residenzenforschung Bd.15.1, Teilband II.), Göttingen 2003

Teaching methods

The seminar assumes active participation by students during reading, translation and interpretation of given metodological texts, followed by a discussion about possible applications of methodological premises for the given sources of information limited by a specific topical area.

Assessment methods

Regular participation at the seminar is required - students have to be active in a discussion about given texts. The texts are provided beforehand for home preparation. All students have to present a paper for a given topic followed by a discussion. Before the discussion students hand in basic theses in written form.

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