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Modern History of Central Europe - KHIS171
Title: Středoevropské dějiny novověku
Guaranteed by: Department of Ecclesiastical History and Literary History (26-KCD)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (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
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Co-requisite : KHIS170
Incompatibility : KHIS015
Interchangeability : KHIS039
Is incompatible with: KHIS015
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)
The lecture series introduces the main tendencies, ideas and traditions of the history of Central Europe in the period from the 16th to the 20th century to the students. It emphasizes key places and important personalities of the national past in the changes from the accession of the Habsburgs to the Czech throne until the World War II.
Aim of the course -
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

The aim of the subject is to point out the historical origin and historical connections of the problems of Central European history in the modern era which were closely linked with the story of the Habsburg monarchy over the centuries.

Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (16.03.2024)

obligatory literature

PÁNEK, Jaroslav, TŮMA, Oldřich, Dějiny českých zemí, Praha 2018.

KŘEN, Jan, Dvě století střední Evropy, Praha 2019.

recommended literature

PUTNA, Martin C., Obrazy z kulturních dějin střední Evropy, Praha 2018.

STEINER, Rudolf, Poslání střední Evropy, Hranice 2016.

KŘEN, Jan, Čtvrt století střední Evropy, Praha 2019.

§FASORA, Lukáš, HANUŠ, Jiří, Mýty a tradice středoevropské univerzitní kultury, Brno 2019.

KONRÁD, Ota, KUČERA, Rudolf, Cesty z apokalypsy, Praha 2018.

KUNŠTÁT, Miroslav a kol., Krize, válka a nový začátek, Praha 2017 etc.

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

frontální výuka

monolog

dialog

problémové učení

skupinová práce

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

the list of five read books, two of which are mandatory and three recommended

oral part –

(1) a broader question from the Central European history of the 16th-20th centuries. century, e.g. the causes of the Thirty Years' War, the consequences of the Reformation for Central Europe or the revolutionary year 1848, and

(2) a narrower question of one's own choice based on a study of the literature.

the oral part will last about 10-15 minutes

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

1. Central Europe on the threshold of the modern age. On the way to a modern state and nation

2. Reformation and Catholic reform

3. The emergence of the Habsburg monarchy. The Thirty Years' War and its consequences. Conflicts of the 17th century

4. The Habsburg monarchy in a struggle with the Ottomans and France. Baroque art in Central Europe

5. Enlightenment and absolutism. The Polish Revolution

6. Power rise of Prussia. Partition of Poland

7. Napoleonic era and German reforms. The Congress of Vienna and the restaurant period

8. Nation-building process in Central Europe

9. The Revolution of 1848 and its defeat. Relations in Russia and Poland. Slavonicity

10. Unification of Germany. Czech and German society in the 19th century. The Habsburg Monarchy in the Liberal Era

11. The First World War and its consequences for Central Europe in the interwar period

12. Nazi occupation of Central Europe. Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

13. Central and Eastern European countries in the vassalage of the USSR

14. Final summary

Entry requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

základní znalost politických, hospodářských a sociálních dějin 16. - 20. století

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. PhDr. ThLic. Marek Šmíd, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (20.03.2023)

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