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Course: Renaissance and Humanism

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Course title	Renaissance and Humanism
Course code	KHI/XRH
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)
Kalous Antonín, doc. Mgr. M.A., Ph.D. Peřinová Markéta
Course content
The course will focus on humanism and renaissance and their interpretation in historiography. The content of the courses with be formed by the Italian milieu of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on Florence, Venice, Rome and other centres of renaissance and humanism also in the framework of cultural histori, history of ideas etc. The spreading of humanism outside Italy will also be considered, especially Hungary, Czech lands, Poland.
Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Orientation in the problems of humanism and renaissance, stressing the modern foreign research and publications. The ability to evaluate and analyse literature and sources of the Italian renaissance. The ability to discuss the historical studies, discussion about individual problems. Understanding the historical phenomenon and the transfer of ideas.
Prerequisites
The students should know the history of the middle ages and the early modern period and especially in detail the history of Italy.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work Active participation in classes, required reading, discussion, essay, colloquium.
Recommended literature
Andrew Martindale. (1971). Člověk a renesance.. Praha. Charles Stinger. (1998). The Renaissance in Rome.. Bloomington. Jill Kraye (ed.). (1996). The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism.. Cambridge. John M. Najemy (ed.). (2004). Italy in the Age of the Renaissance.. Oxford. Jonathan Woolfson (ed.). (2004). Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography. Basingstoke. Josef Macek. (1965). Italská renesance.. Praha. Paul Oskar Kristeller. (2007). Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha. Paul Oskar Kristeller. (1979). Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. New York. Peter Burke. (1996). Italská renesance. Kultura a společnost v Itálii.. Praha. Roy Porter - Mikuláš Teich (edd.). (1992). The Renaissance in National Context.. Cambridge.

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): 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: -

Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 18.02.2025 23:59. Data created for academic year 2024/2025