LJMedB17 Humanist Learning in the Age of the Renaissance

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2012
Rozsah
bloková výuka. 3 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
Gábor Almási, Ph.D. (přednášející), doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D.
Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jitka Erlebachová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 9 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This course is an introduction into the history of Renaissance humanism. Being necessarily selective the aim is to offer snapshots of different aspects of humanism as a cultural and historical phenomenon, explaining its origin, nature, popularity, social-political uses, religious dimensions etc. The course, divided into lectures and close readings of Latin texts, will follow a chronological order, and cover mainly the 15th century in the spring term and the 16th century in the autumn term. During the autumn term the Habsburg monarchy and Prague will receive heightened attention. Selected texts have not been chosen for their literary beauty (poetry will be largely dismissed) but for their historical-cultural interest. For each day a short English language article should be read, which will be distributed beforehand, while the indicated Latin texts will be read only during the seminar as time allows for them.
Osnova
1. What was humanism? Texts: Petrarca: letter to posterity, letter on the climb of Mont Ventoux, letter to Cicero 2. Florentine humanism Texts: Vergerio: response to Petrarca in defence of Cicero, Bruni: oration for the funeral of Nanni Strozzi, Bracciolini: on nobility 3. The Uses of Humanism Texts: L. B. Alberti: De commodis litterarum atque incommodis, De canis, Laura Cereta: letters 4. Humanism goes North Texts: Piccolomini: letters, Celtis: Oration in Ingolstadt, Bohuslav z Lobkovic: letters 5. Christian humanism Texts: Erasmus, Melanchthon 6. Humanism at court, university and private Texts: Ulrich von Hutten, Willem Canter 7. Humanism meets confessionalisation Texts: Andreas Dudith, Justus Lipsius, Caspar Schoppe 8. Humanism meets sciences Texts: Dudith, Tadeáš Hájek
Literatura
  • Charles G. Nauert. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe. Cambridge 1995.
Výukové metody
Seminars, class discussion, reading of selected Latin texts
Metody hodnocení
Credits will be given for active class participation; preparation of assigned readings as well as translation of selected Latin sources.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Further readings: John F. Najemi. "Civic humanism and Florentine politics." In: Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, 75-93. Ed. James Hankins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Gábor Almási. The Uses of Humanism. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován jednorázově.
Výuka probíhá blokově.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2013, jaro 2014.