| Course title | Church Reform in the Middle Ages |
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| Course code | KHI/QCRS |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 5 |
| 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 |
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| Course content |
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The point of departure of the course is a discussion of the Gregorian Reform of the 11th and the first half of the 12th century; the subjects of the discussion will be basic principles of the reform, items of it's agenda, and the vicissitudes of their implementation to reality. Attention will be payed to following topics: liberty of the church, role of the papacy, issue of legitimity, significance of the canon law, relationship of the church to saeculum, relationship between secular and regular clergy, economical issues of the reform, pastoral care... Subsequently parallels and real connections will be drawn to other reform movements of the medieval church. The ambition of this course is to present the mechanisms of the church-reforming and to arrive at significant distinctions, i.e. to determine the principal and recurrent phenomena, and, based on the definitive changes on that level and contingent conditionality of partial issues including vicissitudes of their importance, to capture the basic features of the development of the church in the MA. Because all of the issues under the discussion, both principal and partial, were brought to light by modern historians, the course will be based on reading of the texts of the modern historiografy and the medieval sources engaged in support of respective constructions. Except for a few introductury lessons classroom activities will be confined to discussion of the texts.
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| Learning outcomes |
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Aim of the course is to provide students with insight to the dynamics of historical developement of the church in the Middle Ages based on an analysis of several church reforms.
By the end of the course the students should be able to distinguish between patterns, processes, and plain events within the history of the medieval church. |
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Assigned reading: predominantly in English, knowledge of German, French, and Italian will be wellcomed.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Reading of assigned literature; active participation in the class (discussion). |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (2012) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |