Ruler´s Image in Narrative Sources - AHSV10738

• Title: Erasmus Ruler´s Image in Narrative Sources
• Guaranteed by: Institute of General History (21-USD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• 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
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Bolerazká; PhDr. Anna Zvířecí, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 03.6 History of Art
• Incompatibility : AHSV10739, AHSV10780, AHSV10781
• Is incompatible with: AHSV10739, AHSV10780, AHSV10781, AHSV10785

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Bolerazká (25.09.2019)

The course aims to follow the common idea and depiction of the ruler in narrative sources of the Middle Ages with focus on geographical region of the Latin West. Through work with primary sources, it will introduce the topic and set it in its historical context. In its later stages, the course will cover the subject of languages and their use in medieval literature. As such, lectures will be combined with seminary approach. Knowledge of Latin is not required, however recommended.

Schedule of Lectures:
1. Introduction
2. Hagiography and saintly rulers
3. Ruler’s in the national chroniclers
4. The image of Conqueror
5. The Lion in the Winter
6. The Rulers in the Angevin Period
7. Special Guest
8. Two images of “bad” and “good” king – Otokar of Bohemia and Rudolf I. of Habsburg
9. The last Kings of Přemyslids Dynasty
10. Women Ruler in medieval narrative sources
11. Luxembourger Dynasty in Narrative Sources
12. Burgundian Rulers – Autumn of Middle Ages
13. Test

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Anna Zvířecí, Ph.D. (11.11.2019)

6 ETCS - combination of written and oral exam

 

Written exam:

- most important information of every lecture (10 multiple questions)

- short essay (30 sentences) about your choosen topic

 

Oral exam:

- discussion about 3 topic according your list of literature - please see literature for this lecture

- list of literature should contain 5 books, or 3 books and 3 essays

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Bolerazká (24.09.2019)

·         Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV. and His Legend of St. Wenceslas: Karoli IV Imperatoris Romanorum Vita Ab Eo Ipso Conscripta; Et, Hystoria Nova de Sancto Wenceslao Martyre, edd. Balázs Nagy – Frank Schaer, Budapest 2001.

·         BARTLETT, Robert, England under Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225, New York 2009.

·         BATES, David, William the Conqueror, New Haven 2016.

·         BEHR, Hans-Joachim, Literatur als Machtlegitimation. Studien zur Funktion der deutschsprachigen Dichtung am böhmischen Königshof im 13. Jahrhundert, München 1989.

·         CLAUDE, Michaud, The Kingdoms of Central Europe in the Fourteenth Century, in: Michael Jones, New Cambridge Medieval History vol. VI. c. 1300 – c.1415, Cambridge 2000, p. 735–763.

·         CURTIUS, Ernst Robert, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Princeton 1990.

·         EARENFIGHT, Theresa, Queenship in Medieaval Europe, New York 2013.

·         GILLINGHAM, John, Richard I, New Haven 2002.

·         Historiography in the Middle Ages, Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf (ed.): Leiden – Boston 2003.

·         Medieval concepts of the past: ritual, memory, historiography, Althoff, Gerd – Fried, Johannes – Geary, Patrick (edd.): Cambridge 2002.

·         MENGEL, David Ch., Bones, Stones, and Brothels: Religion and Topography in Prague under Emperor Charles IV. (1346-78), Diss. University of Notre Dame 2003.

·         Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437, BOEHM, Barbara Drake – FAJT, Jiří (edd.), New York 2005.

·         PYNSENT, Robert B., Czech Nationalism after Dalimil and before Hus, in: Doležalová, Eva – Pánek, Jaroslav (edd.): Confession and Nation in the Era of Reformation, Praha 2011, p. 9–34.

·         ROSARIO, Iva, Art and Propaganda: Charles IV of Bohemia, 1346–1378, Woobridge 2000.

·         STEIN, Robert, Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States. The Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands, 1380-1480, Oxford 2017.

·         ŠMAHEL, František, The Parisian Summit, 1377–78. Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France, Chicago – Prague 2014.

·         The Oxford Handbook of Women & Gender in Medieval Europe, edd. Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras, Oxford 2013.

·         WARREN, Wilfried Louis, Henry II, Berkeley 1973.

·         WOLVERTON, Lisa, Cosmas of Prague: Narrative, Classicism, Politics, Washington 2014.