Lecturer: Jan Hon (Berkeley).
Annotation:
Henry Suso’s Vita narrates the life of a „Servant of Eternal Wisdom“ as a path from the state of sin to the state of „Gelassenheit“ (composure/serenity/“let-it-be-ness“) and unity with God. What makes this text unique even in the context of late medieval mysticism is its autobiographical impetus. Though narrated in the third person, the text uses a number of strategies to link the narrative to the historical figure of Henry Suso. That, in turn, makes the hagiographical tone of the account a notably risky endeavor: how can one authorize his own life, filled with self-induced suffering, as an imitatio Christi and, at the same time, present it as an example to be followed by others? The talk will discuss this tension between hagio-graphy and auto-bio-graphy along with the medial strategies in both the manuscript and the print transmissions employed to provide the audience with spiritual participation in the servant’s (self-)torturous way to God.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
The dpeartment of Philosophy and Religiou studies FF UK invites you to a lecture delivered by professor Robert Pasnau (Boulder, Colorado):
The Path from Ancient Egoism to Medieval Altruism
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Černý, PhD., Vlastivědné muzeum v Olomouci, Ústav germánských studií FF UP Olomouc.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
FF UK ve spolupráci s Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès hostí interdisciplinární workshop věnující se výzkumu strukturálních proměn středověké krajiny a venkovských sídlišť. Příspěvky přednesou archeologové a historici z Francie, Itálie, Německa, Polska a České republiky. Součástí workshopu je prohlídka vybraných archeologických lokalit.
Peuplement et transformation de l’habitat en Europe dans les sources écrites et la documentation archéologique (11e – 14e siècle)
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European transformation of settlement pattern in archaeological and written sources
(11th–14th ct.)
Jednacími jazyky jsou francouzština a angličtina. Workshop řeší dílčí úkol projektu KREAS. Podrobnější informace o přednáškách jsou k dispozici v programu s abstrakty.
Kontaktní osoba:
Tomáš Klír
Ústav pro archeologii FF UK
Lecturer: Laura Elisabeth Kalas Williams (Swansea).
Annotation:
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1440) is widely considered to be the first known female autobiography in the English Language. Dictated to a number of scribes over her lifetime, the Book narrates Margery Kempe’s (b.1373; d.c.1440) spiritual conversion and her sometimes painful journey towards a holy life. This lecture will reveal the contents of a medicinal recipe that was added to the end of the only surviving manuscript by a late-fifteenth-century reader of the Book, and will explore the significance of such a medical-religious dialogue. The lecture will also consider the broader use of the Christus Medicus (Christ the Physician) motif, and the ways in which Kempe utilises such medieval understandings to achieve union with God.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese PHDr. Jiří Starý, PhD., Ústav germánských studií FF UK Praha.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
Lecurer: Pernille Hermann (Aarhus).
Annotation:
Leonora Christina (1621-1698), the daugther of the Danish king Christian IV, spent more than two decades in prison, accused of being the accomplice of her husband, Corfitz Ulfeldt, whom was killed for high treason. From this experience grew a most fascinating autobiography, with high narrative quality and an immensely high amount of details from everyday life in prison. The lecture will introduce to Leonora Christina’s autobiographical works, it will discuss how this highborn 17th-century women created the image of a strong and righteous heroine, and how she renewed the autobiographical genre by establishing new textual dialogues. The autobiography of Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is translated into English in Memoirs of Leonora Christina (transl. F.E. Bunnett) London 1872.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese Mgr. Jaroslav Svátek, PhD., Ústav českých dějin FF UK Praha; CMS.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
Projekt Staré mýty, nová fakta: české země v centru hudebního dění 15. století zve na mezinárodní konferenci Music in Bohemia around 1400: Crossroads of traditions / Hudba v českých zemích kolem roku 1400: Rozcestí tradic.
Konferenci organizuje MÚA AV ČR, FF UK.
