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Course: Archaeology of early modern Europe

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Course title Archaeology of early modern Europe
Course code KAR/ARNE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Halva Jan, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
) Archaeo-historical introduction to Early Modern Era Europe (16th - 18th century) 2) Historical Archaeology in Great Britain 3) Scandinavia and the settling of the Arctic 4) France and the Netherlands 5) the Iberian peninsula 6) Archaeology of Early Modern Era Italy 7) Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey, the Balkans, the Middle East) 8) Archaeology of the Early Modern Era 1 (Germany)der frühen Neuzeit 1 9) Archaeology of the Early Modern Era 2 (Austria and Switzerland) 10) Archaeology in Central Europe (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary) 11) Eurocentrism and globalisation (a voyage around the pre-modern era world) 12) Quo vadis archaeology of the Early Modern Era Research perspectives

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 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 in Czech
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 resources and their importance for knowledge and reconstruction of life in Europe in 16-18th century
To create an overview of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period
To outline social development and changes in the observed period
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 16th-18th Century
To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
assessment methods
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • ANDRÉN A. Between Artifacts and Texts. Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. New York/London, 1998.
  • BARAM, U. - LYNDA, C. (eds.). A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Breaking New Ground.
  • BARNWELL, P. S. - PALMER, M. Postmedieval landscapes.
  • BROOKS, A. - MEHLER, N. (eds.). The Country Where My Heart Is. Historical Archaeologies of Nationalism and National Identity. Gainesville, 2017.
  • COURTNEY, P. The Current State nad Future Prospects of Theory in European Post-Medieval Archaeology. 2009.
  • Eickhoff, Sabine; Grothe, Anja; Jungklaus, Bettina,; Schopper, Franz. 1636 - ihre letzte Schlacht : Leben im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. 2012. ISBN 978-3806226324.
  • Elias, Norbert. O procesu civilizace : sociogenetické a psychogenetické studie. I., Proměny chování světských horních vrstev na Západě. Praha : Argo, 2006. ISBN 80-7203-838-9.
  • FUNARI, P. P. A. - HALL, M. - SIÂN, J. (eds.). Historical Archaeology. Back from the Edge. London, New York., 2003.
  • Gaimster, David R. M.; Gilchrist, Roberta. The archaeology of reformation, 1480-1580 : papers given at the archaeology of reformation Conference, February 2001, hosted jointly by Society for Medieval Archaeology, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. Leeds : Maney, 2003. ISBN 1-904350-00-3.
  • GELICHI, S. - LIBRENTI, M. (eds.). Constructing Post Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda.
  • Hall, M. ? Silliman, S. W. Historical Archaeology. Oxford, 2006.
  • HARNOW, H. - CRANSTONE, D. - BELFORD, P. - H?ST-MADSEN, L. Later Historical Archaeology in Britain and Denmark c. 1500-2000 AD. Odense, 2012.
  • Hicks, Dan; Beaudry, Mary C. The Cambridge companion to historical archeology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-61962-2.
  • Iggers, Georg G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století : od vědecké objektivity k postmoderní výzvě. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002. ISBN 80-7106-504-8.
  • MATOUŠEK, V. Archeologie novověku nebo novověká archeologie?. Folia historica Bohemica 15, 41-58. 1991.
  • Meller, Harald *1960-; Schefzik, Michael. Krieg - eine archäologische Spurensuche : Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale) ; 6. November 2015 bis 22. Mai 2016. 2015. ISBN 978-3-8062-3172-4.
  • MÜLLER, J. (ed.). Archäologie der frühen Neuzeit. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Paderborn, 2007.
  • MÜLLER, U. (ed.). Globalisierung. Mitteilungender Deutschen Gesellschaft für Archäologie des Mittelaltersund der Neuzeit. Paderborn, 2017.
  • NEWMAN, R. - CRANSTONE, D. The Historical Archaeology of Britain,C.1540-1900. Sutton, 2001.
  • ORSER, Ch. E. Jr (ed.). Encyklopedia of Historical Archaeology. London/New York, 2002.
  • Preusz, Michal. Historicko-archeologický výzkum doby třicetileté války (1618?1648). Současný stav a perspektivy. Archaeologia historica ISSN 0231-5823 Roč. 44, č. 2019.
  • SCHMIDT, P. R. Historical Archaeology in Africa. Representation, Social Memory and Oral Traditions. Lanham, 2006.
  • Smetánka, Zdeněk; Žegklitz, Jaromír. Studies in postmediaeval archaeology 1 = Postmediální archeologie 1. Praha : Archeologický ústav ČSAV, 1990.
  • TARLOW, S. (ed.). The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe. Warsaw/Berlin, 2015.
  • UCKO, P. J. (ed.). Theory in Archaeology. A world perspective. London/New York, 2005.
  • VAN DÜLMEN, R. Bezectní lidé. Nepočestnost a sociální izolace v raném novověku. Praha, 2003.
  • VAN DÜLMEN, R. Kultura a každodenní život v raném novověku (16. - 18. století). I., Dům a jeho lidé. Praha, 1999.
  • VAN DÜLMEN, R. Kultura a každodenní život v raném novověku (16. - 18. století). II., Vesnice a město. 2006.
  • VAN DÜLMEN, R. Kultura a každodenní život v raném novověku (16. - 18. století). III., Náboženství, magie, osvícenství. Praha, 2006.
  • ŽEGKLITZ, J. (ed.). Studies in Post-Medieval Archaeology 2. Prague, 2007.
  • ŽEGKLITZ, J. (ed.). Studies in Post-Medieval Archaeology 3. Praha, 2009.
  • ŽEGKLITZ, J. (ed.). Studies in Post-Medieval Archaeology 4. Praha, 2012.


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