Annotation
The course focuses on the complex history of medieval settlement, with an overlap into the early modern period. The lecture will show the importance of addressing settlement-historical problems for understanding the social, cultural and economic development of the Czech lands in the European context, with an emphasis on the key period of medieval transformation as an event of long duration (6th-14th centuries). The subject has a strongly interdisciplinary character and combines the approaches of related social sciences and partly also natural sciences, especially history, archaeology, cultural anthropology and geography. Graduates of the course should be able to integrate the findings of the sub-disciplines into the social and economic development of individual regions and subsequently into historical contexts. At the same time, the student should be able to critically analyse the knowledge made available by the individual sub-disciplines, especially history, ethnography, toponomastics and settlement geography. The course will discuss the existing knowledge of Czech and European medieval studies, the results of regional probes and current issues.
The lessons will focus on:
(1) a basic overview of concepts and topics addressed
(2) an explanation of the methods used in settlement history
(3) exercises in the critical treatment of written sources and specialized literature (especially history) 1. Introduction. Overview of concepts and topics covered. The position of the study of settlement history within Czech and European medieval studies. Contribution to the understanding of social, cultural and economic development. 2.-3. Older Czech and German historiography. 4. Czech settlement history in the context of European historiography. 5.-6. History of settlement, historical and settlement geography, environmental history. 7.-8. Issues of settlement advance and the so-called German colonization. 9. The importance of the study of structural change. 10.-11. The history of settlement and the concept of the so-called medieval transformation. 12. Settlement history and the concept of the so-called late medieval crisis. 13. Settlement history and the concept of regionally differentiated development of Central Europe in the later Middle Ages and early modern period.
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