Course: Archaeology of later medieval Europe

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Course title Archaeology of later medieval Europe
Course code KAR/1AVPE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
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)
  • Havel René, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Pospíšil Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Great Britain - a basic overview of development and topics. 2) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Great Britain - rural dwellings. 3) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Great Britain - towns. 4) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Great Britain - material culture. 5) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Germany - a basic overview of development and topics 6) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Germany rural dwellings. 7) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Germany - towns. 8) Archaeology of High and Late Middle Ages in Germany material culture. 9) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Poland - basic overview of development and topics 10) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Poland - villages and towns. 11) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages - material culture. 12) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Austria - basic overview of development and topics, villages, towns, material culture. 13) Archaeology of the High and Late Middle Ages in Switzerland - basic overview of development and topics, villages, towns, material culture.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 78 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 50 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 15 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 17 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To characterize individual periods of Middle Ages - Modern Age
To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past
Skills
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture
To use adequate terminology
To use electronic information sources
To understand a scientific text in English/German
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize the issue of archaeological, and, partially, other sources and their importance for knowledge and reconstruction of everyday life in the 12th-15th century
To create an overview of the medieval material culture
To outline the social development and changes in the 12th-15th Century
Skills
To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods chronologically
To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods functionally
To identify different movable and immovable artefacts of the 12th-15th Century
To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Self-study of literature
Skills
Students' portfolio
Individual study
Practicum
Competences
Lecture
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Test
Skills
Project
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Carver, M., Klápště, J. (eds.). The Archaeology of medieval Europe. Vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Century. Aaarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-8779342910.
  • Fehring, Günter P. Die Achäologie des Mittelalters : eine Einführung. [Stuttgart] : Theiss, 2000. ISBN 3-8062-1480-8.
  • FLÜELER, M. - FLÜELER, N. 1993. Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch: die Stadt um 1300. Stuttgart, 1993.
  • Gerrard, Christopher. Medieval archaeology : understanding traditions and contemporary approaches. 2003. ISBN 0-415-23463-4.
  • HOFER, N. (red.). Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich - eine Bilanz: Beiträge der Tagung in Innsbruck und Hall in Tirol. Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich. Innsbruck, 2013.
  • PIEKALSKI, J. Rynek Wroclawski w świetle badań archeologicznych. Wratislavia antiqua: studia z dziejów Wrocławia 5.
  • SCHOFIELD, J. - VINCE, A. Medieval Towns. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1994.
  • Scholkmann, B., Kenzler, H., Schreg, R. (Hrsg.). Archäologie des Mittlealters und der Neuzeit. Grundwissen.. Darmstadt, 2016. ISBN 978-3-534-26811-5.
  • Vařeka, Pavel. Archeologie středověkého domu. I, Proměny vesnického obydlí v průběhu staletí 6.-15. století. Ústí nad Labem : Vlasta Králová, 2004. ISBN 80-903412-1-7.


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