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Spiritual Culuture of the Middle Ages - KHIS180
Title: Duchovní kultura středověku
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 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: you can enroll for the course repeatedly
course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
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Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D. (02.11.2019)
The seminar deals with the medieval Christian piety and its manifestations in European Art with a special attention to the Central European region. We define Christian spirituality as the concrete, lived form and realization of the Christian faith in the diversity of its cultural expressions. The specific features of medieval piety will be discussed interdisciplinarily from the perspective of theology, history and art history. Part of the course will be an interpretation of selected medieval sources and artistic monuments and artifacts.

In the first part, the impulses and motives leading to the formation and development of medieval piety will be discussed chronologically. The second part of the course will deal with significant topics from the history of medieval spirituality and the artistic creation arising from it, as well as the cult of Central European saints, especially those who came from the ruling dynasties and had the greatest influence on the Art of their time.

The seminar will also include excursion to: 1. Regensburg (Germany); 2. Porta Coeli in Překlášteří u Tišnova; 3. Church of st. Anna in Prague.
Aim of the course - Czech
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D. (04.12.2019)

Cílem předmětu je obeznámit studenty se středověkou křesťanskou zbožností a s jejími projevy v evropském výtvarném umění se zvláštním zřetelem na středoevropský region.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D. (02.11.2019)

Basic literature and sciptums:

Václav Drška – Dana Picková: Dějiny středověké Evropy, Praha 2004.

Michal Altrichter: Krátké dějiny křesťanské spirituality, Olomouc 2013.

Philip Sheldrake: Spiritualita a historie. Úvod do studia dějin a interpretace křesťanského duchovního života, Brno 2003.

Hugh Lawrence: Dějiny středověkého mnišství, Praha 2001

Arnold Angenendt: Grundformen der Frömmigkeit im Mittelalter. München: 2004.

Jordan Aumann: Křesťanská spiritualita v katolické tradici. Praha 2000.

Jill Raitt, Bernard Mcginn a John Meyendorff. Christian spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation. New York 1987

Lutz E. von Padberg, Die Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter. Stuttgart 1998

Detailed  literature:

Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzlaff-Eggebert: Deutsche Mystik zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit: Einheit und Wandlung ihrer Erscheinungsformen. Berlin 1969

Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, Berkeley 1997

Jeffry Hamburger/Susane Marti: Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, Columbia 2008

Norbert Ohler: Náboženské poutě ve středověku a novověku. Praha 2002

Francis Rapp: Církev a náboženský život Západu na sklonku středověku, Brno 1996

John Hine Mundy: Evropa vrcholného středověku 1150–1300, Praha 2008

Gábor Klaniczay/ Éva Pócs: Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania, Budapešť 2017

Gábor Klaniczay: Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe, Cambridge 2011

Gábor Klaniczay: Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe: Tenth to Eleventh Centuries (Central European Medieval Texts) (English and Latin Edition), Budapešť 2012

Gábor Klaniczay­­, Éva Pócs: Communicating with the Spirits (Demons, Spirits and Witches, Vol. 1), Budapešť 2005

Gábor Klaniczay, Karen Margolis: The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, Princeton 1990.

Johannes Eckhart a Jan Sokol: Mistr Eckhart a středověká mystika. Praha: Vyšehrad 2000

Martin Erbstösser: Ketzer im Mittelalter. Leipzig 1984

František Šmahel: Nahlédnutí do středověku: mluva písma a četba obrazů. Praha 2017

Wolfgang Schenkluhn: Architektur der Bettelorden. Die Baukunst der Dominikaner und Franziskaner in Europa, Darmstadt 2000

 

 

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D. (02.11.2019)

Topics:

1. Objectives of the subject, literature. Thematic definition

2. Medieval piety, its theological foundations and its influence on the visual arts

3. The beginnings of Christian piety based on the analysis of the preserved art of that time

4. The role of religious communities and examples of contemporary architecture

5. Female spirituality in the 13th century and its impact on the form and art of female monasteries

6. Medieval mysticism in visual arts

7. Devotio modernism in visual arts

8. Liturgical space as a place of piety

9. Liturgical objects and piety associated with them

10. Manuscripts, book culture and piety associated with them

11. Marian cult, cult of saints and their iconography

12. The royal representation and its artistic expressions

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Kornélia Kolářová Takácsová, Th.D., Ph.D. (02.11.2019)

The condition for completing the course is: two papers more extensive (thematic) and smaller (complementary topic) and active participation in the seminar.

 
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