Sylabus
Lectures:
1. What is Central Europe: Historical concepts, demarcation and origins
2. Crisis of the middle ages and Central Europe
3. The Luxembourgs, Angevins, Jagellonians: Emerging dynasties in the region
4. Central Europe in European politics and conflicts
5. Central Europe and Holy Roman Empire: Mutual influence and relations, CE states in imperial politics
6. Midterm essay
7. Triangular trade: Italy, Flanders and Central Europe
8. Church vs. state: Religious reform and heresy in regional context
9. Hussites and Lollards; The Anti-Hussite crusade in England
10. Pilgrimages. Papal legates and collectors in Central Europe.
11. The “other“ in Central Europe: Religious and ethnic minorities
12. Oral presentations in form of round-table discussion
13. Final essay Required readings: WILSON, P. H. Heart of Europe A History of the Holy Roman Empire. Boston: Harvard University Press
2016. ISBN 978-0-674-05809-5. Selected chapters. SEDLAR, J. W. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press,
1994. ISBN 0-295-97290-4. Selected chapters. JARITZ, G. and SZENDE, K. (eds.). Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge,
2016. ISBN 978-1-138-92346-1. Selected chapters. Recommended readings: BOEHM, B. D. and FAJT, J. Prague–The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2005. ISBN 1-58839-161-2. Selected chapters. SUCHÝ, M. England and Bohemia in the Time of Anne of Luxembourg. Dynastic Marriage as a Precondition for Cultural Contact in the Late Middle Ages. In: Prague and Bohemia. Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe, Leeds: British Archaeological Association, 2009, pp. 8-21. ISBN 978-1-906-54059-3. ASTON, M., The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe. London: Thames and Hudson,
1969. ISBN 978-0-500-33009-8. KAMINSKI, H. A history of the Hussite revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press 1967, 2nd ed.
2004. ISBN 978-1-592-44631-5. Selected chapters. BARTLOVÁ, M. Understanding Hussite Iconoclasm. Filosofický časopis, 2009, Suppl. 1, pp. 115-126. ISSN 0015-1831. ZAORAL, R. Silver and Glass in Medieval Trade and Cultural Exchange between Venice and the Bohemian Kingdom, Český časopis historický/The Czech Historical Review 109, 2011, pp. 235-261. ISSN 0862-6111. ZAORAL, R. Pilgrims and their Money on their Travels to Rome: Reflections on the edition Il Libro del pellegrino (Siena, 1382–1446). Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities – Historica, 1, 2014, pp. 19–34. ISSN: 1805-3742. ZAORAL, R. The management of papal collections and long-distance trade in the thirteenth-century Czech lands. Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Moyen Âge [Online], 127-2, |
2015. ISSN 0223-5110. https://mefrm.revues.org/2732 KEENE, D., NAGY, B. and SZENDE, K. (eds.). Segregation, Integration, Assimilation: Religious and Ethnic Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate,
2009. ISBN 978-0-754-66477-2. Selected chapters.
Anotace
The aim of the course is to present the basic problems of the late medieval history of Central Europe in broader European context. The attention will be paid to political, church, economic and everyday life history.
Its attenders gain also general knowledge of literature and sources related to late medieval Central Europe. The course is designed as a suitable and recommended form of preparation for Comprehensive Exam in European History in Contexts.