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Lecturer(s)
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Vaněk František, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Černý Radek, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction to questions of study of the Prehistoric religion and symbols 2. Spirituality of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. 3. Questions of rituals and symbols in the Neolithic. 4. Socio-cult architecture, ditch enclosures, megalithic structures and ritual artifacts of the Neolithic 5. Questions of specific aspects of the burial rite in the European Prehistory. 6. Symbols and rituals in the Bronze Age and their reflection in the archaeological sources. 7. Cult and ritual in the Hallstatt period. 8. Symbolic and immovable artifacts of the LaTéne period. 9. Question of the demonstration architecture. 10. Building sacrifices and other archaeologically documentable rituals of the Middle Age. 11. Reflection of Christianity in the medieval burial rite. 12. Medieval sacral architecture and its symbolic meaning. 13. Significant symbols of the European Middle Age.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture with visual aids
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 52 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
| To characterize individual periods of prehistory |
| To characterize individual periods of Middle Ages |
| Skills |
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| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
| To read and to understand a scientific text in Czech and German/English |
| To use electronic information sources |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| To characterize changes of burial rite in prehistory and early medieval period |
| To explain the variation of prehistoric and medieval burial rite |
| To give examples of ritual behaviour expression in burial context and in architecture |
| To summarize the issue of symbolic meaning of certain features of prehistoric and medieval material culture |
| Skills |
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| To recognize basic manifestation of ritual behaviour in burial rite and architecture |
| To recognize symbolic meaning of a part of prehistoric and medieval material culture |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
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Recommended literature
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Neustupný, Jiří. Náboženství pravěkého lidstva v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha : Život a práce, 1940.
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Podborský, Vladimír. Náboženství pravěkých Evropanů = Die Religion der Ureuropäer = The religions of the prehistoric Europeans. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2006. ISBN 80-210-4178-1.
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Vlček, Pavel; Foltýn, Dušan; Sommer, Petr. Encyklopedie českých klášterů. Praha : Libri, 1997. ISBN 80-85983-17-6.
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