Course: Seminar on Early Modern History K

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Course title Seminar on Early Modern History K
Course code KHI/XDRNK
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Elbel Martin, doc. Mgr. M.A., Ph.D.
  • Trenta Andrea, Mgr.
  • Peřinová Markéta
Course content
Lecture 1 Catholic Europe after the Reformation - Text: R. Po-chia Hsia, "Introduction - The Reformation and its Worlds," in A companion to the reformation world, edited by R. Po-chia Hsia. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Lecture 2: Ignatius and the First Jesuits - Text: The First Jesuits, John W. O'Malley. Harvard University Press, 1993. Lecture 3: Jesuit early struggles and expansion - Text: An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning. Brill, 2021. Lecture 4: The Jesuit educational system - Text: Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe 1548-1773, Paul F. Grendler. Brill, 2019 Lecture 5: The role of the Jesuits in the European religious Wars - Text: Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, Robert Aleksander Maryks and Festo Mkenda- Brill, 2018. Lecture 6: The Jesuit missions overseas - Text: Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America, Nicholas P. Cushner. Oxford University Press, 2006. Lecture 7: The Jesuits and the Arts: Architecture and Visual Arts Text: Franco Mormando, " Gian Paolo oliva: The Forgotten celebrity of Baroque Rome," in The Holy Name: Art of the Ges? - Bernini and his Age, edited by Linda Wolk-Simon. Saint Joseph's University Press, 2018. Lecture 8: The Jesuits and the Arts: Music and Theatre - Text: Fidel Rädle, "Jesuit Theatre in Germany, Austria and Switzerland," in Neo Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Jan Bloemendal and Fidel Rädle. Brill, 2013. Lecture 9: Jesuit economics - Text: Faith, hope and money: the Jesuits and the genesis of fundraising for education (1550-1650*), Olwen Hufton. Institute of Historical Research, Historical Research, vol. 81, no. 214 (November 2008), pp. 585-609- Lecture 10: Anti-Jesuitism - Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Text: "A general murther, an universal slaughter.' Strategies of Anti-Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period," in Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts, edited by Larissa Tracy. Boydell & Brewer, 2018. Lecture 11: The Enlightenment and the Jesuit suppression - Text: From Expulsion to Restoration: The Jesuits in Crisis, 1759-1814, Maurice Whitehead. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review , Winter 2014/15, Vol. 103, No. 412, pp. 447-461. Lecture 12. What's in a name? Jesuit legacy in Europe and beyond - Text: Thomas Worcester, "Jesuits Today," in The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits, edited by Thomas Worcester. Cambridge University Press, 2008

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The Jesuits: culture, education, and missions in the Early Modern Period
Students will gain knowledge of selected topics of this period and they will be also familiar with the literature related to this course.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Assessment methods and criteria
Seminar Work

- Reading of sources and secondary literature for each lesson - Successful fulfilment of the final test (75 %) - Essay on the topic discussed within the seminar, 3-4 standard pages
Recommended literature


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2015) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Histrory (2019) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archeology (2019) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archeology (2019) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archive Studies (2019) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archival Works (2015) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter