Syllabus
Lectures: 1.3. Everyday life history: questions, methods, sources (RZ) 8.3. Demography and topography of medieval Prague (RZ) 15.3. Prague Castle in the 14th century: courts of Charles IV and Wenceslaus IV (MS) 22.3. Social structure and administration of medieval Prague (RZ) 29.3. Crafts and trade in medieval Prague, prices and wages (RZ) 5.4. Mid-term round table discussion (RZ) 12.4. Building the Cathedral. Everyday life at the medieval construction site (MS) 19.4. Everyday life of Prague burghers (house, family, diet, fashion) in the written sources (accounts, itineraries and testaments) (RZ) 26.4. Henry of Derby in Prague: shopping at the market (MS) 3.5. Festivities in late medieval Prague: coronations, royal weddings and funerals (RZ) 10.5. Cathedral vs. municipal schools, the University of Prague (MS) 17.5. Rector´s free day 24.5. Final essay (RZ)
Required readings:
Boehm, B. D., Fajt, J., Prague – The Crown of Bohemia, 1347 – 1437. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005 https://books.google.cz/books?id=AbZ-rhlSlxsC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Prague:+The+Crown+of+Bohemia+1347-1437,+co-authored+by+Boehm+and+Fajt&source=bl&ots=Wvz-JYm75p&sig=7gUxGI21yMId88v_ZisFSJrcYNc&hl=cs&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfqd2nrrLPAhUHkiwKHZQSADcQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&q=Prague%3A%20The%20Crown%20of%20Bohemia%201347-1437%2C%20co-authored%20by%20Boehm%20and%20Fajt&f=false
Klápště, Jan, Urban Settlement. The Archaeology of Prague and the Medieval Czech Lands, 1100-1600. Sheffield, Equinox eBooks Publishing 2016 (available in the library of the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Prague 1, Celetná 20)
Dyer, Ch., Standards of living in the later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Lüdtke, A. (ed.), The History of Everyday Life. Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Recommended readings:
Opačić, Z., Architecture and Ritual in Medieval Prague. Chicago: Harvey Miller-Brepols, 2014.
Opačić, Z., Sacred Topography of Medieval Prague, in: Sacred Sites and Holy Places: Exploring the Sacralisation of Landscape through Time and Space, eds. S.W. Nordeide and S. Brink. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
Opačić, Z., 'Prague as a New Capital' (with P. Crossley), in: Prague, the Crown of Bohemia. Art and Culture under the Last Luxembourgs 1347-1437, eds. J. Fajt and B. Drake Boehm. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.
Šmahel, F., The Parisian Summit, 1377-78. Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France. Prague: Karolinum, 2015.
Conditions of certification:
Students will be supposed to participate in the mid-term round table discussion and to write a short final essay of about 500 words.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the discourse of everyday life history on the example of medieval Prague. The attention is paid to all aspects of everyday life in medieval Prague.
Required conditions of certification:
Students will be supposed to participate in the mid-term round table discussion and to write a short final essay of about 500 words.