Introduction to European History - YBAJ004

• Title: Introduction to European History
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: 40 / unknown (40)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. Marek Suchý, Ph.D.; Dr. phil. Jan Vondráček, M.A.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Marek Suchý, Ph.D.; Dr. phil. Jan Vondráček, M.A.
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students
• Is pre-requisite for: YBAJ007

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Marek Suchý, Ph.D. (21.01.2022)

Introduction to European History is a compulsory course acquainting students with major topics of European history from antiquity up to the modern period. The course is focused on the interpretation and context of key periods, structures and processes in European history.

Registration requirements

Last update: Mgr. Eva Švancarová (18.08.2021)

This course is specifically designed for 1st grade students of Liberal Arts and Humanities programme, therefore on-line registration is disabled.

 

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. František Kalenda, Ph.D. (06.02.2020)

• HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Different perspectives of the study of History and historian’s craft.

• RELIGION

2. Church and society from Late Antiquity to Middle Ages. -> 3. Reformation, secularization, anticlericalism.

• STATE

4. From Ancient Rome to feudalism, absolutism and centralization. -> 5. Nation state, modern democracy and universalism, totalitarian state.

• CITY

6. From Ancient “polis” to emergence of Medieval city. Culture, self-government, city states (Venice, Genoa, Hanseatic League). -> 7. Industrialization, urbanization, emergence of modern metropolis (London). Immigration, hygiene.

• COUNTRYSIDE

8. Rural society, time and spirituality (survival of paganism). -> 9. Impacts of industrialization: population loss, traditionalism.

• EDUCATION

10. From ancient education to monasteries, cathedral schools and emergence of universities. -> 11. Scientific revolution and enlightenment. Modern education.

12. Essay

 

Mandatory reading

COLEMAN, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to Renaissance. Hoboken: Blackwell, 2000.

DEANESLY, Margaret. A History of The Medieval Church 590–1500. London: Routledge, 2005.

POUNDS, Norman J. G., The Medieval City.  Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

Suggested reading

ANDERSON, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 2016.

BLOCH, Marc. Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

DEANE, Jennifer K. A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 2011.

FERRO, Marc. Colonization: A Global History. London: Routledge, 2005.

GELLNER, Ernst. Nations and nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Hobsbawm, E. J., Nations and Nationalism since 1870: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

HOBSBAWM, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. New York: Mentor, 1962.

HOLLISTER, Charles Warren. Roots of the western tradition: a short history of the ancient world. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

JUDT, Tony, SNYDER, Timothy. Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century. London: William Heinemann 2012.

KUHN, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

PIRENNE, Henri. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

SOUTHERN, R.W. The Making of the Middle Ages. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

ZAFIROVSKI, Milan. The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society. New York: Springer, 2010.

ZIEGLER, Philip. The Black Death. London: Penguin Books 1998.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. František Kalenda, Ph.D. (20.02.2021)

Evaluation will consist of final essay written on one of the previously announced topics.