Syllabus
1. Archaeological sites and archaeological open-air museums
2. Medieval colonization (villages, municipalities, communication networks, ethnic composition).
3. Life in a medieval monastery (the Rule).
4. The perception of time and the annual cycle of the Church.
5. Aristocratic culture and life in the medieval castle.
6. The medieval city (arts and crafts, trade).
7. Renaissance culture and Humanism.
8. The other, the alien and the exotic in European culture.
9. Partaking of food in the Middle Ages and in the modern period.
10. Warfare in the Middle Ages and in the modern period, Arms and armour.
11. Baroque-age culture (Baroque-age piety, churches, feasts, pilgrimages).
12. Country life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (open-air museums, household furnishings).
Annotation
This is a course on both material and immaterial cultural heritage from prehistoric ages to the 18th century AD. In the context of its functionality in the relevant times, it presents this cultural heritage as a component of life of particular social strata of the past. In view of the exceptionally broad range of materials, the course focuses on selected themes from the history of everyday life, with recourse to the most frequently occurring types of material and immaterial heritage. Such themes are those with which the educators will come into contact in their practice, and which will constitute the objects of their presentation and interpretation.
The course aims at familiarization of its participants with these typical elements of both material and immaterial heritage, and at offering a basic orientation in specialized literature exploring the singular components of the heritage in consideration.