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Lecturer(s)
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Svoboda Milan, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lectures: 1) Nobility as a historical phenomenon: Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia. Terminological definition: title and its etymology, development and use. The emergence of the Czech nobility in the Middle Ages and the formation of noble families in the Czech lands. 2) Medieval nobility and its residences, cultural representation, patronage, important families and personalities. 3) The aristocracy of the Czech lands in the early modern era - its residences, burial grounds, written and iconographic sources, selected families and personalities. 4) Nobility in the Habsburg Monarchy of the 19th century and the "new nobility" and the Austrian Empire. 5) Fates of nobles in the 20th century (1918-1948). Noble families in the period of socialism (1948-1989), life stories of individuals in Czechoslovakia and in emigration. 6) Perception of the nobility after the 1989 coup and in the following thirty years (restitution, political representation, patronage, preservation of monuments). 7) Czech nobility in professional, popular and beautiful literature and in the media in the 20th and 21st centuries. Stereotypes associated with it and their meaning in the Czech environment.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Project teaching
- Class attendance
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 16 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 16 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Lectures on subject of modern Czech history. TThe course is devoted to a topic from older history: Nobility in Czech history. The interpretation focuses in general on the development of the Central European nobility from the Middle Ages to modern times and on the methods and results of its self-presentation. The concept and perception of natives by their noble contemporaries and non-natives, but also by the contemporary lay public and professional researchers, is taken into account. It will focus on auto- and heterostereotypes, the contemporary concept of nobility and the consequences resulting from it (primarily in the early modern period). Using the example of selected personalities, students will get to know the way of building spiritual and secular careers and the formation of gender social strategies, their preservation and renewal. he course of lecture deals with new developments in the academic debate.
Exercise: Within the subject, the student will demonstrate the acquired knowledge, the application of terminology during an excursion to a selected noble residence or burial ground.
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Prerequisites
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Fulfilment of previous study obligations, Early Modern knowledge of Czech history.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
Active attendance on discussions (lessons); fulfilment of homework; passing a test successfully; study of recommended literature.
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Recommended literature
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Hrady, zámky a tvrze v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku I?VII. Praha. 1981.
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BŮŽEK, Václav, et al. Věk urozených. Šlechta v českých zemích na prahu novověku. Praha. 2002.
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Evans, R. J. W. Vznik habsburské monarchie.
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MAŤA, Petr. Svět české aristokracie (1500?1700). Praha. 2004.
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