Course: Born to Death. Life and Death in Early Modern Sources

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Course title Born to Death. Life and Death in Early Modern Sources
Course code KHI/XKSR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Prchal Pavlíčková Radmila, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Peřinová Markéta
Course content
Programme: The aime of the course is to acquaint students with many funeral historical sources and their testimony, at the same time to confront modern notions of death with its image and development in old times. Basic sources: catechetics, homiletics, ?ars moriendi?. Good death manuels, testaments, inventaries, funeral ceremonies, their description. Funeral sermons, castrum doloris, funeral chapels, tombstones, epitaphs. Baroque ossuary. Purgatory chapels. Drama, poetry, prose, music, broadside ballads. Early modern society in funeral sermons with main focus on sermons and their source possibilities: Sermons in early modern protestant and catholic milieu (specifics of confesionally different commemorative cultures, existing research, research centres); Funeral sermons as a biographic source, its possibilities and limits; Funeral sermons as a historical source for the research in history of death, illness, old age; Funeral sermons as a source for a gender research, history of childhood, education, travelling, various social groups etc. HF

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
The notion of life and death in the past was different from our todays perception: While nowadays the death being connected to the sterile area of a hospital is purposedly driven out from our minds, it used to be seen as a consequence of the first sin and the climax of life, the decisive moment when one could still either much improve or much lose. Everyday preparation for death was a natural part of life and ?a memento mori? represented one of the crucial elements of the old mentality. HF
Students understands the difference between the understanding of death today and in early modern times. He knows the most important funeral and commemorative sources and is able to interpret them. He is well informed about the Czech and world historiography. HF
Prerequisites
None. HF

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

A credit: Active participation in classes, reading of the texts, discussion A colloquium: a paper HF
Recommended literature
  • Aries Philip. (2000). Dějiny smrti I a II. Praha .


Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2012) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -