FF:ESA082 Aesthetics of Dante Alighieri - Course Information
ESA082 Dante Alighieri: Art, Aesthetics, and Culture of the Middle Ages
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 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
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 10:00–11:40 K21
- Prerequisites
- The course has no special requirements.
- 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 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 10/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150 - 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.
- Learning outcomes
- 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
- OSOLSOBĚ, Petr. Umění a ctnost (Art and Virtue). Brno: Barrister & Principal, o.s., 2013, 300 pp. Dějiny a teorie umění. ISBN 978-80-7485-015-8. info
- LE GOFF, Jacques. Středověká imaginace. Translated by Irena Murasová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 329 s. ISBN 8072030744. info
- ECO, Umberto. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 239 s. ISBN 8072030981. 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
- DANTE, Alighieri. Božská komedie. Praha : Vyšehrad, 1952. info
- Teaching methods
- Reading together the Divine Comedy and the New Life with interpretation.
- Assessment methods
- written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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