FF:PV2B113 Sigismund of Luxembourg III - Course Information
PV2B113 Sigismund of Luxembourg: A Medieval Ruler on the Threshold of Modern Times III
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 18:00–19:40 B2.51, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- 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
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course will deepen students' knowledge of Czech and European history at the time of the Hussite Revolution. Students will improve their skills in dealing with late medieval sources.
- Learning outcomes
- Improving independent work with late medieval sources.
- Syllabus
- Sigismund and the first two crusades against the Hussites (1420-1422 - a repeat of the course Sigismund II)
- Sigismund of Luxembourg and Sigismund Korybutovich (1422-1423)
- The St. Gall coalition and the first efforts to open negotiations between the Hussites and the Church (1423-1424)
- Between negotiations and war (1424-1425)
- The first Hussite raids abroad and the meeting in Bratislava (1425-1429)
- Long path to Basel (1429-1433)
- Negotiating marathon (1433-1436)
- Compacts and the so-called Imperial Compacts (1436)
- Sigismund's rule in Bohemia - consolidation (1436/37)
- Sigismund's rule in Bohemia - crisis (1437)
- Sigismund's death, testament and legacy (1437)
- The image of Sigismund in Czech historiography of the 15th and 16th centuries
- Literature
- required literature
- KAVKA, František. Poslední Lucemburk na českém trůně : králem uprostřed revoluce. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998, 290 s. ISBN 8020406808. info
- recommended literature
- LYSÝ, Miroslav. Husitská revolúcia a Uhorsko. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, 201 s.
- ČORNEJ, Petr. Jan Žižka : Život a doba husitského válečníka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2019, 855 s.
- ŠMAHEL, František. Husitská revoluce 3. Kronika válečných let. Vyd. 2. Praha: Karolinum, 1996, 420 s.
- HOENSCH, Jörg K. Kaiser Sigismund : Herrscher an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit, 1368-1437. Lizenzausg. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997, 652 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Joint reading and interpretation of sources in the seminar. Individual reading and interpretation of sources at home, preparation of a seminary thesis.
- Assessment methods
- During the semester, a seminary thesis (about 7 pages) will be prepared, which must analyze a selected source or group of sources. The seminary thesis will be presented to the whole seminar and evaluated by the teacher during the examination period.
- Náhradní absolvování
- In case of a foreign stay, the course can be attended in an alternative form. After returning from the trip it is possible to submit a seminary thesis.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- General note: Předmět bude vypisován pokud bude zapsáno minimálně 5 studujících.
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