PV1A326 The Science of Sources

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 8:00–9:40 B2.22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! PV1A251 The Science of Sources
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with the basic information on individual types of narrative sources connected with the Czech lands in the Middle Ages in a European context, and to provide students with the chance to analyse these types of sources, with an emphasis on the application of various auxiliary academic disciplines. Emphasis will be placed on self-study (the reading of compulsory literature and sources).
Learning outcomes
Upon completing the course, students will have an overview of: - the typology of Medieval narrative sources and a wider knowledge of these types of sources in a Czech context - the knowledge of basic literature and will also be able to apply the appropriate methods when analysing a specific text. They will also expand their knowledge and ability to work with academic literature, and be able to write academic texts (annotations, reviews).
Syllabus
  • 1) Basic typology of the narrative sources and basic terms;
  • 2) Beginnings of Christian historiography (World Chronicles) in Late Antiquity and their second life in the Middle Ages;
  • 3) The oldest Czech annals and their European context;
  • 4) Cosma's Chronicle, its followers, influence on later chronicles and the context of its origin (Gallus Anonymus, The Tale of Past Years);
  • 5) Vincencius and Jarloch;
  • 6) Chronicon domus Sarensis as an example of a monastic chronicle;
  • 7) Calendars, obituaries and martyrology and their function;
  • 8) Czech chronicles of the 14th century (court chronicles, vernacularization including translations);
  • 9) Czech chronicles of the 15th century (especially the Old Czech Chronicles: urban environment);
  • 10) Hagiography and its Ancient roots: transformation of saints, changes in legends (Acta Martyrum, Life of St Anthony) + Function of hagiography in the Early Middle Ages (the example of the legend of Salusti's Life of St. Martin, Dialogues of Gregory the Great (St. Benedict), Vita Columbani, Beda and his Lives of the Holy Rulers);
  • 11) Cyril-Methodian legends (the first wave of vernacular literature);
  • 12) The Wenceslas-Ludmila legends (the Holy Sovereign);
  • 13) Legends of St Adalbert (the Holy Bishop) and the legends of St Prokop (holy abbot/monk).
Literature
  • Fontes rerum Bohemicarum (1874-)
  • Monumenta Germaniae historica (Kosmas, AGO, chystaná edice Zbraslavské kroniky a děl Vincencia a Jarlocha) (1826-)
  • Monumenta Poloniae historica (N. S.) (1864-)
  • Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum : tempore ducum regumque stirpis Arpadianae gestarum. Edited by Emericus Szentpétery. Budapestini: Academia Litter., 1937, xiv, 553. info
  • Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum : tempore ducum regumque stirpis Arpadianae gestarum. Edited by Emericus Szentpétery. Budapestini: Academia Litter., 1938, 681 s. info
  • Polnoe sobranie ruskich letopisej (N. S.) (1846-)
  • Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores / Rolls series (1858-) vč. pramenů úředního charakteru, či korespondence (1858-)
  • Corpus Christianorum (Continuatio Medievalis) (1953-)
  • Rerum Italicarum scriptores (N. S.) (1900-)
  • Fonti per la storia d´Italia (1887-)
  • Eusebiou tou Pamphilou, episkopou tes en Palaistine Kaisareias ta euriskomena panta. Patrologia Graeca 19–24. Ed. J. P. Migne. Paris 1857.
  • http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm
  • Sabrina Inowlocki & Claudio Zamagni (eds), Reconsidering Eusebius: Collected papers on literary, historical, and theological issues. (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 107). Leiden 2011.
  • Grant, Robert M.: Eusebius as church historian. Oxford 1980.
  • Burgess, Richard W.: Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian Chronography. Stuttgart 1999.
  • Cameron, Averil: History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History. London 1989.
  • CAMERON, Averil. Christianity and the rhetoric of empire : the development of Cristian discourse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, xv, 261. ISBN 0520089235. info
  • BURGESS, R. W. and Michael KULIKOWSKI. Mosaics of time : the Latin chronicle traditions from the first century BC to the sixth century AD. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, xiii, 444. ISBN 9782503531403. info
  • Houwen, Luuk A. J. R.: Beda Venerabilis. Historian, Monk and Northumbrian (Mediaevalia Groningana 19). Forsten, Groningen 1996
  • MacLean, Simon: Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prum’s Chronicle. English Historical Review, 124, 2009, 1-28
  • Schleidgen, W.-R.: Die Überlieferungsgeschichte der Chronik des Regino von Prüm, in Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte, 31, Mainz 1977
  • GLENN, Jason. Politics and history in the tenth century : the work and world of Reich of Reims. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xv, 330. ISBN 9780521038126. info
  • Baran-Kozłowski, Wojciech: Kronika świata Mariana Szkota. Studium źrodłoznawcze. Poznań, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2009.
  • Gawłowska, W.: Frutolfa z Michelsbergu „Chronicon Universale”. Wątki dziejopisarskie i literackie. Łódź 1989
  • Von den Brincken, Anna-Dorothea: Studien zur lateinischen Weltchronistik bis in das Zeitalter Ottos von Freising. Münster 1956.
Teaching methods
Lectures are complemented by seminars (emphasis on the active participation of students)
Assessment methods
Oral examination; active participation in seminars (75%); review of an academic book (first version to be submitted by the end of November); annotation of a study written in foreign language (not in Slovak) in Czech (first version to be submitted by the end of November).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: Následně bude vypsáno na jaře 2024.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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