The Baroque Aristocratic and Bourgeois Libraries - AISE00013

• Title: The Baroque Aristocratic and Bourgeois Libraries
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship (21-UISK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (4)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Explanation: Předmět je pod tímto kódem určen výhradně výměnným studujícím (erasmus).
• Additional information: https://uisk.ff.cuni.cz/en/exchange-students/erasmus-courses/
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Richard Šípek, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 03.6 History of Art; Exchange - 15.4 Library Science

Annotation

Last update: UISSIPEK (01.10.2013)

Instructor: Richard Šípek / [e-mail]
Monday 12:30 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
National Museum:
The meeting point is the porter's lodge at the staff entrance into the New Museum Building (Vinohradská 1, Praha 1
- http://mapy.cz/s/5iOV - exact location of the entrance is marked with a blue dot). Please, wait there for my
coming.


8 ECTS

In the beginning, the lecture will introduce the general cultural background of aristocracy and bourgeoisie of
baroque
Europe and formal as well as effectual position of the library in the system. Emphasis will be put on finding
common signs of
both the libraries of aristocracy and of bourgeoisie as well as their individual differences.

In case of the aristocratic milieu the representative importance of the family libraries and realization of the
renaissance
concept of bibliotheca universalis will be focused on. The bourgeois libraries will be presented with special
respect to their
exploitation in the owner's profession and thence the differences in the topical structure of the profession libraries.

Ways of acquisition, possessor's records and marks and their importance as a research source for the history of
libraries
will be discussed with respect to both the aristocratic and bourgeois libraries.

As an appendix to the lecture the baroque passion for collections and collecting (Sammellust) and the
phenomena of
cabinet of curiosities (cabinet de curiosités, Kunstkammer) will be described together with relations and bounds
between the
art collections and the libraries themselves.