Lectures:

1. Everyday life history: questions, methods, sources

2. Demography and topography of medieval Prague

3. Prague Castle in the 14th century: courts of Charles IV and Wenceslaus IV

4. Social structure and administration of medieval Prague

5. Crafts and trade in medieval Prague, prices and wages

6. Mid-term round table discussion

7. Building the Cathedral. Everyday life at the medieval construction site

8. Everyday life of Prague burghers (house, family, diet, fashion) in the written sources (accounts, itineraries and testaments)

9. Henry of Derby in Prague: shopping at the market

10. Festivities in late medieval Prague: coronations, royal weddings and funerals

11. Cathedral vs. municipal schools, the University of Prague

12. Final essay

Requirements: short paper 30%, presence 10%, final essay 60%

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

http://sfx.is.cuni.cz/sfxlcl3?sid=jstor%3Ajstor&genre=book&eisbn=9780812204223&title=Hastening+Toward+Prague&isbn=9780812236132

Jan Klápště, The Archaeology of Prague and the Medieval Czech lands, 1100 – 1600. Equinox 2016 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.