PV1B115 Kingdom Come: How to construct the Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Stanislav Bárta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Stanislav Bárta, 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
Wed 14:00–15:40 B2.13
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
Course objectives
The objective of this course is to compare the ideas of game developers about the Late Middle Ages with the views from historical science. Based on an analysis of the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, students will learn about the differences in both these approaches. With regard to the game being set in a historical and local context, the course will contain individual thematic blocks examining events at the turn of the 14th/15th century in the Czech lands, and various aspects of life in Late Medieval society. There will also be a focus on issues of historical memory and the survival of stereotypes about the past, as well as the use of historical material for presenting ideological attitudes.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- differentiate the approaches and objectives of the game developer and the historian in their use of historical material;
- characterize life in Late Medieval society in the Czech lands;
- understand the basic literature and the sources for the Late Middle Ages in the Czech lands;
- discuss the use of historical material today and its (mis)use in social discourse.
Syllabus
  • Methodology, approaches and aims of the historian and the game developer.
  • The Czech lands around the year 1400.
  • Events, places and protagonists (1402/1403.)
  • War and military tactics in the Late Middle Ages.
  • The written culture of the Late Middle Ages.
  • Diplomacy and communication in the Late Middle Ages.
  • Stereotypes in the depiction of monarchs.
  • An archaeologist’s view of the Medieval village.
  • Monastery life in the Late Middle Ages.
  • Everyday rural life in the Middle Ages.
  • The instrumentalization of history in social discourse.
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion
Assessment methods
Written test, credit
Language of instruction
Czech
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