Medieval Cultural Pluralism - YBAJ224

• Title: Medieval Cultural Pluralism
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (10)
• 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
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YBEC183
• Is incompatible with: YBEC183

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D. (29.08.2023)

The course, taught in English, focuses on the cultural diversity of medieval Europe. It serves as an introduction to the religious, social and art history during the period from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the Reformation. A special focus will be placed on the culture in medieval Bohemia. The course will include at least one excursion providing an in-depth insight into surviving medieval heritage.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)

Kurz vyučovaný v angličtině slouží jako základní úvod do kultur(y) evropského středověku. Představí náboženské, sociální a umělecké aspekty této epochy od pádu římské říše do období reformace. Zohlední též kulturu středověkých Čech. Součástí kurzu tak bude i exkurze, seznamující s vybranými dochovanými středověkými památkami na území Prahy.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D. (03.09.2023)

• Short paper (1 to 2 pages) on a selected literary culture of medieval Europe written during the semester. 
• Oral exam based on the topics covered in the class and on the reading of two specialized articles/chapters or two scholarly books.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Karel Pacovský, Ph.D. (29.08.2023)

Topics covered:
• Christianization of Europe
• Islam and Europe
• Jews
• Europe's linguistic diversity
• The rise of the papacy and the shaping of the Western Church
• The spirituality of medieval Christianity
• Monasteries
• Cities and universities
• Heresies
• Hussites and the Reformation
• Architecture and visual arts

Learning resources

Last update: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (05.06.2023)

• John Aberth, The Black Death: A New History of the Great Mortality in Europe, 1347-1500, Oxford 2020.

• Christine C. Ames, Medieval heresies: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Cambridge 2015.

• Clifford R. Backman, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Oxford 2021.

• Julia Barrow, The Clergy in the Medieval World: Secular Clerics, their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, Cambridge 2015.

• Thomas E. Burman - Brian A. Catlos - Mark D. Meyerson, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650, Berkley, University of California Press, 2022.

• Robert Chazan, The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, Cambridge 2006.

• Robert Chazan, Reassessing Jewish life in Medieval Europe, Cambridge 2010.

• James G. Clark, The Benedictines in the Middle Ages, Boydell Press 2011.

• Zdeněk David, Finding the Middle Way. The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther, Baltimore 2003.

• Nicolas Drocourt - Sebastian Kolditz (eds.), A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204, Brill 2021.

• Ruth Evans (ed.), A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages, Bloomsbury 2012.

• Clifford H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages, Harlow: Longman, 1989.

• Gary Macy, The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West, Oxford 2007.

• Denis R. McNamara, How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture, Herbert Press, 2011.

• Nicholas Orme, Going to Church in Medieval England, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

• Pavel Soukup, Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher, West Lafayette 2019.