LMD_010 Cultural Approaches to Medieval Latin Manuscripts

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Dana Stehlíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PROGRAM ( F008 )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course focuses on various aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. It offers insights into into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in the widest context. It shows how to understand medieval manuscripts in their cultural complexity, including their production, transmission as well as their continued adaptations.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will understand the cultural context of medieval Latin manuscripts; they will have an overview of basic approaches to the production and transmission of medieval manuscripts; they will be aware of the challenges and potential of digital scholarship to the field of manuscripts studies and textual criticism.
Syllabus
  • Medieval Latin manuscript production and its particularities
  • Medieval Latin manuscripts as a process, their life cycle and dynamics of their adaptations
  • Textual instability and the concept of mouvance
  • Miscellaneity and variance in the medieval book
  • Medieval attitude to tradition and auctoritates
  • Technologies of the manuscript matrix
  • Decoding the material book
  • Medieval manuscripts: media archaeology and the digital turn
  • Vernacularity and multilingualism of medieval manuscripts
Literature
    required literature
  • ROUSE, Mary A. and Richard H. ROUSE. Authentic witnesses : approaches to medieval texts and manuscripts. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, viii, 518. ISBN 0268006229. info
  • The medieval manuscript book : cultural approaches. Edited by Michael Johnston - Michael Van Dussen. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xii, 302. ISBN 9781107066199. info
  • Nichols, Stephen G. „Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture.” Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 65/1 (1990): 1–10
    recommended literature
  • Analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts : digital approaches. Edited by Tara Andrews - Caroline Macé. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014, 346 stran. ISBN 9782503552682. info
  • Probable truth : editing medieval texts from Britain in the twenty-first century. Edited by Vincent Gillespie - Anne Hudson. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, xiv, 549. ISBN 9782503536835. info
  • Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo - Jussi Parikka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, x, 356. ISBN 9780520262744. info
  • A companion to the history of the book. Edited by Simon Eliot - Jonathan Rose. Pbk. ed. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, xvi, 599. ISBN 9781405127653. info
  • ZUMTHOR, Paul. Oral poetry: an itroduction. Edited by Walter J. Ong, Translated by Kathryn Murphy-Judy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990, xii, 264. ISBN 0816617252. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, class discussion, presentation of a selected topic
Assessment methods
Regular attendance and active class participation; colloquium: short discussion about the topics debated in the seminars.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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