UBKCJLNP07 Mediaeval and early modern literature

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Sichálek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jakub Sichálek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jakub Sichálek, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
Resolve to read the texts written in Old and Middle Czech, courage to keep encounter otherness.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar and lectures should deepen knowledge of the Czech literary history and provide more detailed overview of the Czech medieval, renaissance and baroque literature.
Learning outcomes
Students will be familiar with multilingual concept of the Old Czech literature. Another learning aims:
Students are able to characterise older literary eras, styles or poetic traditions and the representative literary works;
they will know genre system of Old Czech literature;
they will able to characterize the canonical literary works written in Old Church Slavonic, Latin, German and Czech.
Syllabus
  • Old Curch Slavonic literature.
  • Latin literacy and literature.
  • German authors in the Czech lands.
  • Literature in Czech.
  • Latin, Czech and German literature in the 14th c.
  • Using Latin, Czech and German in the dogmatic religious polemics.
  • Latin and Czech literature in the 16th c. Part I.
  • Latin and Czech literature in the 16th c. Part II.
  • Baroque drama in school.
  • Baroque hagiography and historiography.
  • Baroque preaching.
  • Baroque hymnography.
  • Popular prose romances and and broadside ballads.
Literature
    required literature
  • LEHÁR, J., A. STICH, J. JANÁČKOVÁ and J. HOLÝ. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. 2., doplněné vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008. info
  • LEHÁR, J. - STICH, A. (ed.). Kniha textů 1: česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. Praha, 2005. info
    recommended literature
  • JACKOVÁ, M. Divadlo jako škola ctnosti a zbožnosti. Jezuitské školské drama v Praze v první polovině 18. století. Praha: FF UK, 2011.
  • Moravo, Čechy, radujte se. Němečtí a rakouští básníci v českých zemích za posledních Přemyslovců. Uspořádali V. Bok, J. Pokorný. Praha: Aula, 1998
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, J. a STRNADOVÁ, K. (eds.) Dělání mnohých knih žádného konce není. Antologie textů ke studiu starší české literatury. Literatura raného novověku. Olomouc: UP, 2011.
  • DOLEŽALOVÁ, L. et al. Čítanka latinských textů z pozdně středověkých Čech. Praha: Scriptorium, 2017
  • Starší divadlo v českých zemích do konce 18. století. Osobnosti a díla. Red. A. Jakubcová. Praha: Academia, 2007.
Teaching methods
Lectures (PowerPoint presentation), class discussion, teamwork, close reading, essay.
Assessment methods
Presentation of paper (homework). The final test (it consists of 12 questions, 8 correct answers is needed to pass).
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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