Everyday Life in the Middle Ages - APA111085

• Anglický název: Everyday Life in the Middle Ages
• Zajišťuje: Ústav pro archeologii (21-UPRAV)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2025
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:2/0, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: čeština
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Je zajišťováno předmětem: APA555088
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu; student může plnit i v dalších letech
• Garant: PhDr. Roman Zaoral
• Třída: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Historické vědy

Anotace

The history of everyday life has been a central subject in recent historiography. How did people in the past live their lives
daily? What were their concerns, and what were their foundations? How did their lives vary based on their life station and
perspectives? Using written, material, and iconographic sources, the course provides insight into individual social
environments through probes and excursions into the countryside, the monastery, the courtyard, and the city. It is
intended for those who want to acquire the basic ability to analyse medieval sources and write a short essay about pre-
assigned topics.

Poslední úprava: Šmidtová Renata, Ing. (27.11.2025)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Course completion requirements: final essay in the range of 800 words

Assessment: discussion leading activity and class participation (40%)

final essay in the range of 800 words (60%)

Poslední úprava: Šmidtová Renata, Ing. (27.11.2025)

Literatura

Ch. Dyer. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c. 1200–1520. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

J. Le Goff. Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages. Chicago University Press, 1982.

C. H. Lawrence. Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Longman Pub Group, 1989.

H. Pirenne. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton University Press, 1980.

D. M. Nicholas. The Later Medieval City. Routledge, 1997.

G. Jaritz (ed.), (ed). Images, Ritual and Daily Life. The Medieval Perspective. Berlin, 2012.

Poslední úprava: Šmidtová Renata, Ing. (27.11.2025)

Sylabus

1. Introduction to the history of everyday life: definition of the concept, possibilities and limits of research, methods, current state of research. Conditions of everyday life in the Middle Ages: population, settlement area and horizon, concept of time, climate and living conditions, “culture” of the Middle Ages

2. Family: house and kinship, marriage, love and sexuality, childhood and old age

3. Life in the countryside I: the system of medieval manors, topography of the village, country house and farm

4. Life in the countryside II: work in the fields, women’s work, achievements and revenues, feast day, analysis of sources

5. Monastery and monastic life I: institutions and functions of the monastery, monastic community

6. Monastery and monastic life II: daily routine, analysis of sources

7. Chivalry and life at court I: medieval castle, signs of court culture

8. Chivalry and life at court II: knightly festivals and tournaments, daily life, analysis of sources

9. Life in the city I: the concept of a city, the beginnings of the medieval city, freedoms, privileges and their limits, topography of cities

10. Life in the city II: size of towns, social structure, house and its inhabitants, analysis of sources

11. Mentalities in the Middle Ages and their transformation in the early modern period: perception of time and space, Renaissance approach to the world

12. Journeys and travel: analysis of sources, working with maps

13. Final essay

Poslední úprava: Šmidtová Renata, Ing. (27.11.2025)