Travelling in the Middle Ages - YBA337

• Title: Travelling in the Middle Ages
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (40)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Marek Suchý, Ph.D.
• Is incompatible with: YBAJ259, YBAJ194, YBLH009

Annotation

English

The course provides students with insights into different aspects of medieval travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course.

Last update: Suchý Marek, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Czech

Soubor přednášek podává základní přehled různých aspektů středověkého cestování. Důraz je kladen na interpretaci soudobých historických pramenů (kroniky, cestovní účty, itineráře, cestopisy, listiny, etc.) v rámci jednotlivých širších témat (např. válečné kampaně, poutě, univerzitní peregrinace, diplomacie, obchod a řemesla).

Last update: Suchý Marek, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Course completion requirements

Final test concerning lecture topics.

Last update: Suchý Marek, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.06.2019)

Syllabus

Lectures:

1. Primary and secondary sources

2. Roads and means of travelling

3. Viking migration

4. Knight crusaders

5. Itinerant Kings and Queens

6. Diplomats on the road

7. Peripatetic ecclesiastics

8. University peregrination

9. Pilgrimages

10. Trade and traders

11. Itinerant craftsmen

12. Libri viatici: portable books

13. Final test

 

Required readings:

LABARGE, Margaret Wade. Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. London: Phoenix, 1982. ISBN: 0-75382-041-2.

OHLER, Norbert. The Medieval Traveller. Woodbridge: The Boydel Press, 1989. ISBN: 978-1-84383-507-3.

Last update: Suchý Marek, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.06.2019)