PdF:De2RC_DST Middle Ages - Course Information

De2RC_DST Middle Ages

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009

Extent and Intensity

0/0/40. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Extension of Teaching Qualification for another subject (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in History)

Course objectives

Acquiring and cavity of knowledge about political, social, economical and cultural development in the Middle Ages.

Syllabus

General history Migration of nations and forming of early medieval Europe. Church and papacy, organization, administration, cloisters, crusades. Byzantium – continuity and new development lines, culture, fall of the Constantinople. Culture and economy of early medieval Europe. Franc Empire, Charles the Great, restoration of the western Empire. Early middle ages in central Europe, Renavacio imperii Romanorum. Arabic expansion, Islam, cultural and spiritual centers, reconquist. British islands, expansion of Normans. Towns and Universities, society and culture of the top medieval age. Saint Roman Empire in the top medieval age. Kievan Russia, Tataric attacks, Muscovite Russia. Polish – Lithuanian personal union. France of the top middle ages, hundred year’s war. Western and Eastern Europe of late Middle Ages, society, culture. Medieval history of the Czech lands Origins and development of Slavonic settlement of our country in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th century. Great Moravia – first state of the western Slavonians. Prince age (until the end of the 12th century). Material culture of the Czech Middle ages. Century of the last Premyslics. Luxembourgian Age. Husitian revolution. Iagelonic and Podebradian Age. Czech church in the middle ages. Nobility – development, position. Towns – origins, development, role and significance. Czech law in the middle age – essential law relics. Scholarship and culture. Moravia as the part of the Bohemian state.

Teaching methods

Lectures, class discussion, homeworks, reading.

Assessment methods

The subject is going to be finished by oral exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.