HIB046b Crisis or Autumn of the Middle Ages?

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Borovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tomáš Borovský, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Ability to understand professional literature in English, German or French.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • History (programme FF, B-HI_) (3)
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the problems of the late Middle Ages.
Learning outcomes
Participants of the seminar will be oriented in the main problems of European history of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Syllabus
  • 1. Historiographical introduction
  • 2. European population and the Black death epidemic
  • 3. Papalism and conciliarism
  • 4. The crisis of the Church
  • 5. The world of heresies
  • 6. Festivities and rituals
  • 7. Time of work, time of buyers: changing mentalities
  • 8. Art in time of "crisis"
Literature
  • GRAUS, František. Mor, flagelanti a vraždění Židů : 14. století jako období krize. Translated by Jan Dobeš. Vydání první. Praha: Argo, 2020, 712 stran. ISBN 9788025733806. info
  • HUIZINGA, J. Podzim středověku. Translated by Gabriela Veselá - Šárka Belisová. Vydání druhé, v Pasece pr. Praha: Paseka, 2010, 420 stran. ISBN 9788074320279. info
  • MEUTHEN, Erich. Das 15. Jahrhundert. 4. Auflage, überarbeitet vo. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006, x, 343. ISBN 3486497340. info
  • BERGDOLT, Klaus. Černá smrt v Evropě : velký mor a konec středověku. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2002, 236 s. ISBN 8070215410. info
  • TUCHMAN, Barbara Wertheim. A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century. London: Papermac, 1989, xxii, 677. ISBN 0333443292. info
Teaching methods
lecture with analysis of sources and discussion.
Assessment methods
Written essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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