Lectures:

1. Introduction: primary and secondary sources

2. Medieval church: origins and development in the Middle Ages

3. Building the cathedral: technology, crafts, and everyday life at the building site

4. Financing cathedral building: economic aspects of building the cathedral

5. Liturgy: cathedral as a space for daily church services

6. Cathedral treasure, library, and archive: movable equipment of the church

7. Cathedral school and scriptorium: cathedral as a center of education

8. Relics and pilgrimage: spiritual journeys in the Middle Ages

9. Coronations: ceremonial sacring of the monarch

10. Funerals: tombs and burial rituals in the cathedral

11. Cathedral and medieval town: medieval town as a seat of (arch)bishop

12. Cathedral and metropolitan chapter: organization, authority, way of life, and finances of the canons

13. Final test

Required readings:

DUBY, G. The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420. Chicago 1983. ISBN: 0-226-16770-4.

SUCHÝ, Marek. St Vitus building accounts (1372-78): The economic aspects of building the cathedral. In: Zaoral, Roman (ed.). Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, s. 222-246. ISBN 978-1-137-46022-6.