Material and symbolic culture in late medieval and early modern Europe - APA555049E

• Title: Material and symbolic culture in late medieval and early modern Europe
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Archaeology (21-UPRAV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (16); summer:unknown / unknown (16)
• 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
• Is provided by: APA555049
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; can be fulfilled in the future; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Jakub Jan Sawicki, Dr.
• Class: Exchange - 08.3 History; Exchange - 08.4 Archaelogy; Exchange - 14.7 Anthropology

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Iveta Pastyříková (19.09.2019)

The aim of the lecture is to introduce students into archaeology of material and symbolic culture of late medieval
and early modern Europe. First, we will discuss theory of material culture and new approaches that are rapidly
evolving due to so called material turn in humanities. The main focus of the course will be put on material culture
itself – on archaeological artefacts, their meaning and ways of interpreting them. We will discuss European
material culture fitting in the extended chronological frames of late medieval to pre-industrial times (12-18th cent.).

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Iveta Pastyříková (24.09.2019)

Appadurai, A. (Ed.), 2013. The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective, 11. print. ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Beaudry, M.C., 2006. Findings: the material culture of needlework and sewing. Yale University Press, New Haven.

De Landa, M., 2016. Assemblage theory, Speculative realism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Douglas, M., Isherwood, B., 2002. World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption., first edition 1979. ed. Taylor and Francis, London.

Gerritsen, A., Riello, G., 2016. Introduction: The Global Lives of Things. Material culture in the first global age, in: Gerritsen, A., Riello, G. (Eds.), The Global Lives of Things. The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York, pp. 1-27.

Gilchrist, R., 2012. Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge.

Gilchrist, R., 2009. Medieval archaeology and theory: a disciplinary leap of faith, in: Gilchrist, R., Reynolds, A. (Eds.), Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007, The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph. Routledge.

Hicks, D., 2010. The Material‐Cultural Turn: Event and Effect, in: Hicks, D., Beaudry, M.C. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York, pp. 25-98.

Hicks, D., Beaudry, M.C. (Eds.), 2010. The Oxford handbook of material culture studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York.

Insoll, T. (Ed.), 2011. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Jervis, B., 2018. Assemblage Thought and Archaeology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Jervis, B., 2014. Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England. Oxbow Books.

Johnson, M., 2010. Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford?

Latour, B., 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-network-theory, Clarendon lectures in management studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York.

Malafouris, L., 2013. How things shape the mind: a theory of material engagement. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mehler, N., 2013. Breaking New Ground: Historical Archaeology in Central Europe, in: Mehler, N. (Ed.), Historical Archaeology in Central Europe, Special Publication of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Society for Historical Archaeology, Rockville, pp. 11-30.

Olsen, B., 2010. In defense of things: archaeology and the ontology of objects, Archaeology in society series. AltaMira Press, Lanham [Md.].

Sawicki, J., 2014. Średniowieczne świeckie odznaki w Polsce na tle europejskim =: Medieval secular badges in Poland against the European background, Wratislavia Antiqua. Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław.

Trentmann, F., 2016. Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First. Harper.

Wachowski, K., 2013. Emblemata mediaevalia profana: przykład Polski, Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław.

Witmore, C., 2014. Archaeology and the New Materialisms. J. Contemp. Archaeol. 1, 203-246. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i2.%16661

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Iveta Pastyříková (19.09.2019)

Lectures will be held every other week.

1. Introduction to material and symbolic culture of late medieval and early modern Europe.

2. What to do with all those things? Some new (archaeological) approaches to material culture.

3. Courtly love, dragons and Minnesang. Archaeology of medieval material culture, pt. 1.

4. Saints, crosses and pilgrim shells. Archaeology of medieval material culture, pt. 2.

5. Pre-industrial material culture and a (very) long medieval.

6. From theory to practice. In touch with material culture.