LITERATURE

The Middle Ages (the 5th - 15th centuries)

Armstrong, K., A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Bloch, M., Feudal Society 1-2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Le Goff, J., The Birth of Europe. Boston: Blackwell, 2005.

Le Roy Ladurie, E., Montaillou. Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324. London: Penguin, 1980.

Riley-Smith, J., The Crusades: A Short History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.

Aston, M., The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Pirenne, H., Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Nicholas, D., The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500. London: Longman, 1997.

Peter Spufford, Power and Profit. The Merchant in Medieval Europe. New York-London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Dyer, Ch., Standards of living in the later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

The Early Modern Period (the 16th - 18th centuries)

Kamen, H., Early Modern European Society. London: Routledge, 2000.

Braudel, F., Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Burke, P., Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. London: Temple Smith, 1978.

McGrath, A. E., The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation.

Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Elias, N., The Civilizing Process. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

Fischer, D. H., The Great Wave: Price Revolution and Rhythm of History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Thomas, K., Religion and the Decline of Magic. London: Penguin, 2003.

Edelstein, D., The Enlightenment: a genealogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Burleigh, M., Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.

Rémond, R., Religion and Society in Modern Europe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

The Modern Period (the 19th - 20th centuries)

Hobsbawm, E. J., The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. New York: Mentor, 1962.

Hobsbawm, E. J., Nations and Nationalism since 1870: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Cohen, G. B., The politics of ethnic survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Taylor, A. J. P., The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: a history of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Stearns, P. N., The Industrial Revolution in World History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

Paxton, R. O., The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Vintage Press, 2005.

Geyer, M., Fitzpatrick, S. (eds.), Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Livi-Bacci, M., The Population of Europe: a history. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

Iggers, G. G., Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From the Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

OPTIONAL TOPICS

(students select three topics from the following list for oral presentation)

THE MIDDLE AGES

Christianity, Judaism and Islam

Crusades of the 11th - 15th centuries

Everyday life in the medieval town

Long-distance trade in the Middle Ages

Principles of the feudal and estate systém

Symptoms of the so-called “crisis of the Middle Ages“

Transformation of the society in the Latin West during the 12th and 13th centuries

Travelling forms in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period

Typology of medieval towns

EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Main streams of the European Reformation

People on the fringes of society

Power, social and confessional transformations of Europe during the Thirty-Years´ War

Price Revolution

Reception of Antiquity in the Renaissance

Relation transformation between state and ecclesiastical power in European history

Relation transformation between elite and popular culture in European history

Renaissance attitude to the world

The “civilizing process“ (in connection with Norbert Elias´s theses)

MODERN PERIOD

Aftermath of World War II

Age of Enlightenment

Constitutional development and concepts of the 19th century Habsburg monarchy

Fascism and Nazism

Formation of modern European nations

History of modern historiography: main schools of historiography in the 20th century

Industrial Revolution

Prague Spring 1968

Revolutionary cycles of the long 19th century

Secularization from the French Revolution till the early 20th century: term definition, social and political connections, response of the churches

Transformations of Central and Eastern Europe in 1989

Treaty of Versailles, the origin and political system of inter-war Czechoslovakia