ESA082 Dante Alighieri: Art, Aesthetics, and Culture of the Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 4 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 C34
Prerequisites
Course is a very good way to develop advanced academic reading abilities,learning to think through research and to communicate well, orally and in writing. Tackling topics in depth and defending the arguments in their written work sharpens their thinking.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 120 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/120, only registered: 0/120, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/120
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
On succesful completion of the course student will be able to interpret Dante's work in the perspective of the History of Aesthetic, Poetry, Cultury History and his European influences.
Syllabus
  • Work of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is a synthesis of his great learning in poetry, philosophy, history, geography, astronomy, art of politics, and religion. Cours provides an introduction of a contemporary student into the cultural categories of the Middle-Ages, including the allegorical-symbolic system of European arts. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
  • Dante in European Culture and Literature
  • Mediaeval scholarship, artes liberales, philosophy and theology
  • Symbolic system in arts, allegory, three types of
  • philosophy of history in De Monarchia, Augustine, Bible
  • Poetry and History, chronology and geography, astronomy
  • Aesthetic and Ethic views of historical reality
  • Dante in the Modern Literature (Joyce, Eliot, Beckett)
  • Dante in the Czech Culture (Vrchlický, Březina,Vrátný, Babler, Zahradníček)
Literature
  • Očistec (Podřaz.) : Božská komedie., Očistec [Dante Alighieri, 1880] : Božská komedie., Očistec [Dante Alighieri, 1901]. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr and Giovanni REALE. Kulturní a duchovní kořeny Evropy. Za obrození "evropského člověka" (Cultural and Spiritual Roots of Europe). Brno: CDK, 2005, 180 pp. Dějiny a kultura. ISBN 8073250683. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. The Order of Love. In Ordo Amoris, or Woodworm in the Tree of Knowledge. Brno: FOTEP, 2005, p. 121-132, 9 pp. edition of Libor Teplý. ISBN 80-86871-03-7. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. Zahradníčkova básnická eschatologie a Dantova "Komedie" (Jan Zahradníček's Revision of The Translation of The Divine Comedy and Dantesque Imagery and Eschatology in His Poems). In Víra a výraz. Sborník z konference. Východiska a perspektivy české křesťanské poezie a prózy 20. století. Brno: Tomáš Kubíček a Jan Wiendl (eds.), 2005, p. 77-90. ISBN 80-7294-163-1. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. Jan Zahradníček nad Dantovým Peklem (Jan Zahradníček on the Edge of Dante's Inferno). In Literatura určená k likvidaci. Praha: Obec spisovatelů, 2004, p. 120-134. ISBN 80-239-7212-X. info
  • LE GOFF, Jacques. Svatý František z Assisi. Translated by Kateřina Vinšová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2004, 187 s. ISBN 8070216514. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. Aristotele, Dante e Shakespeare, i tre educatori alla virtu ed Europa (Aristotle, Dante and Shakespeare, three teachers of virtue and Europe). In Educare all' Europa. Rimini: Il Cerchio, 2003, p. 16-26. ISBN 88-8474-042-8. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. Neviditelný překladatel Danta a odsouzený básník Jan Zahradníček (An Invisible Translator of Dante and Imprisoned Poet Jan Zahradníček). Revue Politika. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2003, vol. 2003, 8-9, p. 13-17. ISSN 1214-0899. info
  • Středověký člověk a jeho svět. Edited by Jacques Le Goff, Translated by Ondřej Bastl. Vyd. 2. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003, 319 s. ISBN 8070216824. info
  • LE GOFF, Jacques. Zrození očistce. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003, 372 s. ISBN 8070216379. info
  • LE GOFF, Jacques. Středověká imaginace. Translated by Irena Murasová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 329 s. ISBN 8072030744. info
  • GUREVIČ, Aron. Nebe, peklo, svět :cesty k lidové kultuře středověku. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1996, 524 s. ISBN 80-85787-41-5. info
  • MONTANELLI, Indro. Dante a jeho doba. Translated by Alena Hartmanová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1981, 260 s. URL info
  • GUREVIČ, Aron Jakovlevič. Kategorie středověké kultury. Translated by Jaroslav Kolár. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1978, 286 s. URL info
  • ALIGHIERI, Dante. Božská komedie. Edited by Karel Vrátný. V Praze: [Karel Vrátný], 1930. info
  • DANTE ALIGHIERI, 1265-1321. Básnická díla [Dante Alighieri]. Translated by Jaroslav Vrchlický. V Praze: Nakladatelství J. Otty, 1901. info
  • MOORE, Edward. Studies in Dante. Ser. 1, Scripture and classical authors in Dante. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896, viii, 399. info
Teaching methods
Every lecture requires homework preparation in reading the assigned study literature. After teacher's presentation of the general and particular features of the subject, students are guided to interpretation of the chosen extracts, and class discussions follow.
Assessment methods
written test, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: test na základě látky přednášek a zadané literatury
Information on course enrolment limitations: posluchači estetiky Bc., kteří začali své studium před více než čtyřmi semestry, musí mít splněnu postupovou zkoušku (ESAPZE), jinak si nesmí předmět zapsat
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