Lectures:

1. Late medieval period as the crisis of the Middle Ages? (RZ)
2. The Luxembourg dynasty in Central Europe (RZ)

3. Iconography as a historical source. Good king Wenceslaus (JD)

4. Poor end of a tapster - sinners on the pictures of the Last Judgement (JD)

5. Bohemian icons - the cult of images in the European context (JD)

6. Mid-term essay (JD + RZ)

7. Biblical typology: How the biblical Exegesis was shared across medieval Europe (JD)

8. Hunting the unicorn - an unusual iconography of Annunciation (JD)
9. Three streams of Hussitism (RZ)

10. Looking for Hussite art - problem of identifying art of the Hussite/Utraquist church (JD)

11. Hussite and anti-Hussite propaganda (JD)

12. Final essay (JD + RZ)

Required readings:

Fajt, J., Charles IV: emperor by the grace of god: culture and art in the reign of the last of the Luxembourgs 1347-1437. Bamberg: Arthis, 2006.

Kaminski, H., A history of the Hussite revolution, Berkeley: University of California Press 1967, 2nd ed. 2004.

Recommended readings:

Suckale, R., Prague: the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, eds. Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

Opačić, Z., Architecture and Religious Experience in 14th-Century Prague, in: Jiří Fajt, Andrea Lange (eds.), Kunst als Herrschaftsinstrument. Böhmen und das Heilige Römische Reich unter den Luxemburgern im europäischen Kontext, Berlin-München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, pp. 136-149.

Bartlová, M., Šroněk, M. (eds.), Public Communication in European Reformation, Prague: Artefactum, 2007, pp. 29-68.

Bartlová, M., Iconography of Jan Hus, in: A Companion to Jan Hus, eds. František Šmahel, Ota Pavlíček. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015, pp. 325-341.