CJCC08 Cultural-historical overview

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Jílková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are:
- gaining an understanding of the historical and cultural development of the Czech lands and periodising it;
- clarification of the main characteristics of their cultural development;
- clarification of their present form from a political and cultural point of view;
- explanation of the historical and cultural development in a European context.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course students will:
- be familiar with the history of the Czech lands;
- understand the principles by which the main developmental stages were defined;
- understand the cultural development;
- recognise the specific features of contemporary Czech society;
- be able to characterize the particularities of Czech development and features which it shares with European development.
Syllabus
  • A concise historical-geographic introduction.
  • The Czech lands and their location. Bohemia and Moravia at the dawn of history. Traces of pre-historic cultures, Celts and Germanic peoples. Arrival of Slavs.
  • Beginning of Czech civilization. Great Moravia, Roman Bohemia.
  • Gothic Bohemia of the last Přemyslids and Luxemburgs.
  • The Hussite revolution and its place in Czech history.
  • Renaissance, humanism, Comenius and the Bohemian Brethren.
  • Baroque and its legacy. Changes in the Czech cultural landscape.
  • The national revival and formation of modern Czech culture in the 19th century.
  • The diversity of Czech culture in the First republic.
  • February 1948, Stalinism.
  • The 1960s, the year 1968. Normalisation and Czech culture.
Literature
    required literature
  • České a československé dějiny.. Online. 1. vyd. Praha: Fortuna, 1991. 119 s. ISBN 80-85298-29-5. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
    recommended literature
  • MAREK, Jaroslav. Česká moderní kultura. Online. Vydání první. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998. 335 stran. ISBN 8020406743. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
  • SPUNAR, Pavel. Kultura středověku. Online. 2. pozměn. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1995. 226 s. ISBN 8020005471. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
  • HLOBIL, Ivo and Eduard PETRŮ. Humanismus a raná renesance na Moravě. Online. Photo by Prokop Paul. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1992. 274 s. ISBN 8020003851. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
    not specified
  • BĚLINA, Pavel. Dějiny zemí koruny české.. Online. 8. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2002. 328 s. ISBN 80-7185-503-0. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
  • KRSEK, Ivo. Umění baroka na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Online. Edited by Zdeněk Kudělka, Photo by Prokop Paul. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1996. 739 s. ISBN 8020005404. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
  • ČORNEJ, Petr. Dějiny zemí Koruny české.. Online. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 1992. 302 s. ISBN 8085192284. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
  • ŠKARKA, Antonín. Půl tisíciletí českého písemnictví. Online. Edited by Emanuel Macek - Pavel Spunar - Jan Lehár. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1986. 502 s. [citováno 2024-04-23] URL info
Teaching methods
The seminar will use presentation, interpretation, analysis and comparison of the model of Czech history and culture with a model of the history and culture of students’ countries.
Assessment methods
To obtain a pass students have to pass a test.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023.
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