DU2329 Architecture of medieval monasteries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Aleš Flídr (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Aleš Flídr
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 18:00–19:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
In the frame of the subject the students get acquainted with the history of the monastic life and also architecture from the oldest communities in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria to the late Middle Ages. The most progresive monastic rule was written by St. Benedict of Nursia, it become the basic rule of the whole western monastic life up to 11th century in spite of particular reforms. In the times of the Carolingian Renaissance the ideal shape of the convent was created in the frame of the Benedictine Order, this ideal form should have been in accordance with all the spiritual and material needs of the monastic community. The space solution of the church with the conventual buildings functionally connected by the cloister with the paradisal garden in the centre, surrounded by the farming and manufacturing facilities, all the monastic communities of the Middle Ages tried to reproduce, where the Cistercian Order was the most succesful one.
Learning outcomes
to describe basic trends in the development of the Western monastic life; to distinguish basic monastic orders and rules; to identify particular types of the monastic architecture; to determine function of different spaces of the church and conventual building
Syllabus
  • 1. Desert Fathers and the first communities 2. Monastery Development in the West 3. Great Reforms of Benedictines 4. New Communities in the 11th. Century 5. Devoted life according to St. Bernard 6. Convents by the City Walls 7. Knights from the Holy Land 8. Monastic life at the End of Middle Ages
Literature
  • KUTHAN, Jiří. Benediktinské kláštery střední Evropy a jejich architektura. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2014, 360 s. ISBN 9788074223341. info
  • Otevři zahradu rajskou. Edited by Dušan Foltýn. V Praze: Národní galerie ve spolupráci s Filosofickým ústavem AV ČR v Praze, 2014, 491 s. ISBN 9788070355503. info
  • VOPATRNÝ, Gorazd. Keltské křesťanství. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010, 155 s. ISBN 9788087378359. info
  • KRÜGER, Kristina. Řády a kláštery : 2000 let křesťanského umění a kultury. Edited by Thomas Paffen - Rolf Toman - Rainer Warland, Photo by Achim Bednorz. V Praze: Slovart, 2008, 431 s. ISBN 9788073911218. info
  • FOLTÝN, Dušan. Encyklopedie moravských a slezských klášterů. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2005, 878 s. ISBN 8072770268. info
  • KUTHAN, Jiří. Gloria Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis. Vyd. 1. Praha: Ústav dějin křesťanského umění Katolické teologické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze v nakl. Tomáš Halama, 2005, 518 s. ISBN 8090360033. info
  • FRANK, Karl Suso. Dějiny křesťanského mnišství. Translated by Zdeněk Lochovský. 1. vyd. Praha: Benediktinské arciopatství sv. Vojtěcha a sv. Markéty, 2003, 195 s. ISBN 8090268285. info
  • LAWRENCE, C. H. Dějiny středověkého mnišství. Edited by Libor Jan, Translated by Pavel Pšeja - Jan Vomlela. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury ;, 2001, 325 s. ISBN 8070215364. info
  • VLČEK, Pavel, Petr SOMMER and Dušan FOLTÝN. Encyklopedie českých klášterů. První vydání. Praha: Libri, 1997, 778 stran. ISBN 8085983176. info
  • KUTHAN, Jiří. Počátky a rozmach gotické architektury v Čechách : k problematice cisterciácké stavební tvorby. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1983, 375 s. info
Teaching methods
The course is taught in the form of lectures, special scholarly excursion will allow practical view on current state of the medieval monastic architecture in Moravia.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020.
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