LJMedB12 Imagery of the Chronicon Aulae regiae

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
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
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 A41 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The Chronicon Aulae regiae is the most extensive, most important and most advanced chronicle of medieval Latin literature in Bohemia. At the end of the course, students should be able to evaluate the state of research on the Chronicon; to characterize its language and style; to discuss the ways of translation of the leonin hexametre into Czech; to analyze rhetorical phenomena and cursus of a selected piece of the work; to create a commented translation of a part of the text into Czech.
Syllabus
  • 1. State of research.
  • 2. Origin of the chronicle and its authors.
  • 3. Structure of the chronicle: prologues, structure, prosimetre.
  • 4. Characteristics of the genre: chronicle as a genre and minor genres involved in it (vision, letter, speech, prayer, planctus, epitaph, literary testament, vita, miracula).
  • 5. Rhetorical phenomena used in the chronicle and other features of its style (figures of speech, tropes, loci communes, cursus etc.).
  • 6. Literary context of the chronicle.
  • 7. Translation of the leonin hexametre.
  • 8. Reading and interpretation of the following passages: prologues, I/88-115.
Literature
  • Petra Žitavského Kronika zbraslavská. Pragae, 1884, s. 1-337. Fontes rerum Bohemicarum IV. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, Václav. Úvod. In Kronika zbraslavská. Praha, 1905, p. VII-LXXI. info
  • NECHUTOVÁ, Jana. Latinská literatura českého středověku do roku 1400. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2000, 368 pp. ISBN 80-7021-305-1. info
  • BLÁHOVÁ, Marie. Dílna středověkého historika. (Způsob práce Petra Žitavského). In Piśmiennictwo Czech i Polski w średniowieczu we wczesnej epoce nowożytnej. Katowice, 2006, p. 11-33. info
  • PABST, Bernhard. Die Chronica Aulae Regiae des Petrus von Zittau. In Prosimetrum. Tradition und Wandel einer Literaturform zwischen Spätantike und Spätmittelalter. Wien, 1994, p. 961-978. ISBN 3-412-01492-3. info
  • PRAŽÁK, Albert. Peter von Zitau als Dichter. Slavische Rundschau : Berichtende und kritische Zeitschrift für das geistige Leben der slavischen Völker. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1938, vol. 1938, No 6, p. 32-44. info
  • HONEMANN, Volker. Peter von Zittau als Literat. In Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters in und über Böhmen, II. Tagung in České Budějovice/Budweis 2002. Hamburg, 2004, p. 145-159. ISBN 978-3-8300-1041-8. info
  • HONEMANN, Volker. Tod und Sterben in der „Chronica Aulae regiae“ des Peter von Zittau. Zum geistesgeschichtlichen Hintergrund des „Ackermann“. In Deutsch-böhmische Literaturbeziehungen, Germano-Bohemica. Festschrift für Václav Bok zum 65. Geburtstag. Hamburg, 2004, p. 75-95. info
  • PETRŮ, Eduard. Der literarische Wert des Chronicon Aulae Regiae. Zeitschrift für Slawistik. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1962, vol. 28, No 7, p. 703-714. ISSN 0044-3506. info
  • NECHUTOVÁ, Jana. České překlady leoninského hexametru. In Mezinárodní vědecká konference na paměť 50. výročí úmrtí českého klasického filologa a překladatele Otmara Vaňorného. Okresní Muzeum ve Vysokém Mýtě, 1997, p. 187-197. info
Teaching methods
Seminar, class discussions, reading, homeworks.
Assessment methods
Regular attendance (min. 75%), active participation in class discussion and presentation of selected part of the text are required.
Language of instruction
Czech
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