UZLJMB10 Eros and Christianity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Anna Pumprová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The Song of Songs and its effect on literature from the Antiquity to the early modern times, and primarily on the medieval Latin literature. The main objective of the course can be summarized as follows: to demonstrate how reading and interpretation of the Song of Songs developed in Latin exegetical literature; how its text was adapted in other genres; how the Song of Songs effected Latin and Old Czech literature of Bohemia in Middle Ages and New-Czech literature in early modern times. The main authors in these thematic areas will be examined in more depth through reading and interpretation of their texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Song of Songs and Christianity.
  • 2. Latin exegesis of the Song of Songs: Origenes (in Latin translation). Gregory the Great. Bede the Venerable. Honorius Augustodunensis. Rupert of Deutz. Bernard of Clairvaux.
  • 3. The Song of Songs in other genres of medieval literature: Historiography. Epistolography and Artes poeticae. Secular poetry. Sacred lyric. Devotional and mystical literature.
  • 4. The Song of Songs in both Latin and Czech literatures in the Middle Ages (Robert of Olomouc, Peter of Zittau, Iohannes of Jenstein, Iohannes Hus, Otep myrrhy - Sheaf of Myrrh, Výklad piesniček Šalomúnových - Interpretation of King Solomon`s Songs).
  • 5. Translations of the Song of Songs in modern times (Comenius, Bible kralická, J. Seifert, V. Fichl, Čan, M. Balabán).
Literature
  • MATTER, Edith Ann. The Voice of My Beloved. The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity. Philadelphia, 1990. ISBN 0-8122-8231-0. info
  • TURNER, Denys. Eros and Allegory. Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs. Kalamazoo, Michigan et al., 1995. ISBN 0-87907-956-8. info
  • OHLY, Friedrich. Hohelied-Studien. Grundzüge einer Geschichte der Hoheliedauslegung des Abendlandes bis um 1200. Wiesbaden, 1958. info
  • RIEDLINGER, Helmut. Die Makellosigkeit der Kirche in den lateinischen Hoheliedkommentaren des Mittelalters. Münster, 1958. info
  • DAHAN, Gilbert. L’exégèse chrètienne de la Bible en Occident médiéval XIIe –XIVe siècle. Paris, 1999. ISBN 2-204-06094-1. info
  • HERDE, Rosemarie. Das Hohelied in der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters bis zum 12. Jahrhundert. Spoleto, 1968. info
  • PUTNA, Martin C. Píseň písní v dějinách evropského myšlení. In Órigenés: O Písni písní. Praha, 2000, p. 7-86. info
  • Píseň písní : v českých překladech 15.-21. století. Edited by Milan Balabán. Vyd. v tomto souboru 1. Praha: Paseka, 2003, 197 s. ISBN 8071854557. info
Assessment methods
Type of teaching: seminar. Requirements: regular attendance and active class participation (min. 75%); reading of presented texts.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008.
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