Course: Selected chapters from the older history 1

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Course title Selected chapters from the older history 1
Course code KHI/VPS1Z
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Svoboda Milan, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the development of book culture in the Czech lands and Central Europe from the second half of the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. The interpretation will primarily shed light on the beginnings and development of Czech book creation from the end of the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. It will focus on letterpress and bookbinding terminology as specific to the craft and field. Using the examples of selected printers from Prague and other localities from the Czech countries, topics such as printing financing, technical book processing, the social impact of increased reproduction of information (censorship, press bans, criminal prosecution of authors and book publishers) will be explained. At the same time, the graduates of the course will gain an overview of the basic bibliographic literature and the usefulness of old prints as a multifaceted source of the historian's research. Lectures: 1) Book and its parts - physical description, terminology and definitions, production, decoration 2) Predecessors of printed books, manuscripts. Writing and its development in general (from pictograms to graphemes) 3) Writing materials, means and their carriers (stone, wood, textile, papyrus, parchment and paper) 4) Forms of the book in Czech history since the Middle Ages (incunabula, paleotypes, heirlooms, facsimiles, forgery) 5) From author to reader: printer, bookseller, librarian. Relation to the book in intellectual and rural environments (bibliophilia and bibliophobia) 6) Storage of books (libraries, museums, archives, private collections) and types of libraries then and now (noble, bourgeois and church libraries; state, private), care of books 7) The book as a historian's source (research on the book as a social phenomenon): a means of memory fixation, representation and sustenance BOHATCOVÁ, Mirjam et al.: Česká kniha v proměnách staletí, Praha, Panorama 1990, ISBN 80-7038-131-0. HEJNOVÁ, Miroslava - HŮLEK, Julius - UHLÍŘ, Zdeněk: Ve znamení nové doby. První dvě století tištěné knihy v Čechách, Praha, Národní knihovna ČR 2000. TOBOLKA, Zdeněk Václav: Kniha. Její vznik, vývoj a rozbor, Praha, Orbis 1950. VOIT, Petr: Encyklopedie knihy: starší knihtisk a příbuzné obory mezi polovinou 15. a počátkem 19. století. Papír, písmo a písmolijectví, knihtisk a jiné grafické techniky, tiskaři, nakladatelé, knihkupci, ilustrátoři a kartografové, literární typologie, textové a výtvarné prvky knihy, knižní vazba, knižní obchod, 1-2, 2. vyd., Praha, Libri - Královská kanonie premonstrátů na Strahově 2008, ISBN 978-80-7277-390-9.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course is devoted to a selected topic from ancient history. The seminar will introduce students to the possibilities of researching the book as a historical source. In addition to the interpretation of the book's history (in the Czech historical context), students actively participate in the cataloging of old prints from the former Franciscan library in Hejnice, now in the depository of the Regional Science Library in Liberec, where seminars are also held.
It corresponds to the definition of the subject and to the demands given in syllabus.
Prerequisites
Fulfilment of previous study obligations, see the study program.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student's performance analysis

Active attendance on discussions (lessons); fulfilment of homework; passing a test successfully; study of recommended literature.
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