Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Introduction to the subject (development of the discipline, its major representatives and institutions, principal primary sources, current issues).
2. Man and landscape in history.
3. Territorial development of the Bohemian lands with respect to Central Europe from the Early Middle Ages up to the latest period.
4. Exploration of the world, colonialism, the rearrangement of the world order.
5. Historical cartography in Europe.
6. Old maps of Bohemian lands from 16th century onwards. Seminars:
1. Physical geography of the Bohemian lands.
2. Settlement of the Bohemian lands in historical perspective.
3. The origins and development of transportation in the Bohemian lands.
4. Travellers and their reports and diaries I
5. Travellers and their reports and diaries II
6. Working with old maps, critical analysis and interpretation
Annotation
This subject is taught in Czech.
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the issues, what are discussed in the domain of the historical cartography and geography, to learn them how to work with old maps and to bring them to an understanding of the phenomenon of the "travelling" in history.