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Basic problems and methods of studying medieval culture - ASS600002
Title: Základní problémy a metody studia středověké kultury (vědy o umění a kultuře; filozofie, religionistika a teologie, hudba)
Guaranteed by: Institute of Archaeology (21-UPRAV)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. David Eben, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. David Eben, Ph.D.
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download Struktura mše.pptx Struktura mešní liturgie prof. PhDr. David Eben, Ph.D.
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1.-2. Art, form, meaning (Michaela Ottová, Jan Dienstbier et al.) <br>
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- From stylistic morphology to formal analysis <br>
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- Functions of style <br>
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- Iconography and iconology <br>
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- Semiotic approaches <br>
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- Mediality of medieval art <br>
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3.- 4. Liturgy and Art (David Eben, Jan Klípa, Jan Dienstbier) <br>
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- spatial framework, visual elements <br>
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- performativity – rhythm, "consuetudines", basic structure of the ceremonies <br>
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- space and sound – liturgical repertoire <br>
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5. The Book as Piece of Art (David Eben, Pavel Sládek, Jan Dienstbier) <br>
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materiality, function (visual) <br>
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decoration, writing <br>
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liturgical book, musical notation <br>
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6.-7. Mentality and religiosity (Anna Tropia) <br>
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- anthropology, metaphysics and psychology in the Middle Ages <br>
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- main philosophical movements - Aristotelianism and Platonism, scholasticism in the 13th and 14th centuries - the relationship between philosophy and theology <br>
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8. Culture of minorities (Daniel Boušek, Milan Žonca) <br>
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- main centres of Jewish culture (Ashkenaz, Sefarad) <br>
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- visual culture of the Jewish minority <br>
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- encounters and polemics between cultures: Islam-Judaism-Christianity <br>
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9.-10. Culture and art of social elites (David Eben, Michaela Ottová, Jan Dienstbier) <br>
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- visual culture (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.) <br>
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- music - court lyrics, court "bands" in the late Middle Ages <br>
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11. Materiality of the city and the countryside (Tomáš Klír) <br>
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- urbanism and settlement forms <br>
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- everyday life, economy, social profile <br>
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- landscape <br>
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12. Small material culture and its context (Jan Dienstbier, Tomáš Klír, Ivo Štefan) <br>
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- objects of material culture: ceramics, glass, metal objects, etc., heating devices, stoves and tiles <br>
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Předmět může být vyučován v angličtině, a to v závislosti na rozhodnutí garanta (tomu bude odpovídat i personální zajištění – u uvedené osnovy je vždy minimálně jeden vyučující zajišťující případnou výuku v angličtině). <br>
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Last update: UHVEBEN (10.09.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Requirements for the exam:

1. A written work (approximately 2000 words in length) on a certain topic related to the issues discussed. This work will be submitted to the chosen instructor.

2. Defense of the written work – in the presence of at least two instructors.

3. An oral discussion on the reading list (immediately following the defense, with the same instructors present).

 

 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
Literature -


Graham-Campbell, J. A. – Klápšte, J. 2011 (eds.): The Archaeology of Medieval Europe. 2: Twelfth to Sixteenth centuries. Århus.

Valor Piechotta, M. – Graham-Campbell, J. A. 2007: The archaeology of medieval Europe. 1: Eighth to twelfth centuries AD. Århus.

Klápště, J. 2012: The Czech lands in medieval transformations. Turnout.

Klápště, J. 2016: The archaeology of Prague and the medieval Czech lands, 1100-1600. Jan Klápště. Sheffield : Equinox.

 

Adam, A.: Grundriss Liturgie, Freiburg 2018.

Gittos, H. – Hammilton, S. 2019 (eds.): Understanding Medieval Liturgy. Essays in Interpretation. Abingdon: Routledge 2019.

Hiley, D. 1993: Western Plainchant: a Handbook, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1993.

Fassler, M. 2014: Music in the Medieval West, London – New York: Norton 2014.

 

Adamson, P. 2019: A History of Philosophy without Any Gaps. Medieval Philosophy, OUP, 2019

De Boer,  S.W. 2013: The Science of the Soul. The Commentary Tradition on Aristotle’s De anima, c. 1260-1360. Leuven University Press, 2013

Pasnau, R. 1998: Theories of Cognition in Later Middles Ages. OUP 1998

Pasnau, R. (ed) 2009-10: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge 2009-2010

Hyman, et al. (eds) 2010: Philosophy in the Middle Ages. The Christian, Islamic and Jewish Tradition, Hackett Publishing Company, 2010 (3rd edition)

Lopez-Farjeat, L. X. 2022: Classical Islamic Philosophy. A Thematic Introduction, Taylor and Francis, 2022

 

Chazan, Robert, Jews of medieval western christendom, 1000-1500. Cambridge, 2006.

Chazan, Robert, ed.  The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume VI, The Middle Ages: The Christian World  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Kogman-Appel, Katrin, „Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition“, The Art Bulletin 84/2 (2002): 246–72.

Mark Cohen, Under crescent and cross, Princeton 1994.

Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava, Intertwined Worlds. Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Liebermann, Phillip I. ed.  The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume V, The Medieval Islamic World  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

 

 
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
 
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