German medievist and germanist Wilhelm Heizmann (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the constitution of lives of the two prototypic villains of the European Middle Ages: Dismas and Gesmas, the two thieves on the Cross.
The lecture is a part of the cycle Life and Biography in the Middle Ages.
Annotation:
The course aims to depict the forms and shapes of the genre of biography in the Middle Ages. It attempts to cover a broad spectrum of cultures and languages – Latin, Hebrew, Middle High German, Occitan, Old Norse or Balkan – and a full range of figures whose life medieval biography could depict: heathen and Christian kings, heroes, saints, Jesus as well as adventurers and dark heroes.
However, the course plans to offer more than an analysis and classification of biography subgenres and picturesque personalities. All the lectures should address the question of what was substantial in a human life for the medieval man, what gave it value and endowed it with meaning.
All the lectures and discussions will be in English, the lectures will be held by guest professors from foreign universities.
řednášející: Mgr. Jana Maříková-Kubková, PhD., vedoucí pracoviště Archeologického ústavu AV ČR Pražský hrad
Přednáška se uskuteční v rámci předmětu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Série přednášek, které uvedou studenty do disciplín přímo souvisejících s dějinami středověké latiny a středověké latinské literatury, stejně jako do širšího kontextu medievistiky a částečně též neolatinistiky, jejich problémů, metod, základní literatury, vývoje a současných trendů. Cílem každé přednášky je seznámit studenty s danou disciplínou či tématem, ukázat, jaké otázky si klade, jaké problémy řeší a proč je zajímavá. Jednotliví vyučující představí konkrétní případovou studii, specifický problém či metodu.
Hungarian scholar David Falvay (ELTE Budapest) will speak about the late medieval lives of Christ and evaluate them as reflections of the medieval Christian piety.
The lecture is a part of the cycle Life and Biography in the Middle Ages.
Annotation:
The course aims to depict the forms and shapes of the genre of biography in the Middle Ages. It attempts to cover a broad spectrum of cultures and languages – Latin, Hebrew, Middle High German, Occitan, Old Norse or Balkan – and a full range of figures whose life medieval biography could depict: heathen and Christian kings, heroes, saints, Jesus as well as adventurers and dark heroes.
However, the course plans to offer more than an analysis and classification of biography subgenres and picturesque personalities. All the lectures should address the question of what was substantial in a human life for the medieval man, what gave it value and endowed it with meaning.
All the lectures and discussions will be in English, the lectures will be held by guest professors from foreign universities.
řednášející: Mgr. Eliška Poláčková, PhD., oddělení antické kultury a její recepce Kabinet pro klasická studia FLÚ AV ČR, Katedra divadelních studií FF MU Brno
Přednáška se uskuteční v rámci předmětu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Série přednášek, které uvedou studenty do disciplín přímo souvisejících s dějinami středověké latiny a středověké latinské literatury, stejně jako do širšího kontextu medievistiky a částečně též neolatinistiky, jejich problémů, metod, základní literatury, vývoje a současných trendů. Cílem každé přednášky je seznámit studenty s danou disciplínou či tématem, ukázat, jaké otázky si klade, jaké problémy řeší a proč je zajímavá. Jednotliví vyučující představí konkrétní případovou studii, specifický problém či metodu.
Young Czech Hebraist Milan Žonca (Charles University, Prague) will speak about spectacular, scurrile and blasphemous Jewish medieval narratives about the life of Jesus Christ
The lecture is a part of the cycle Life and Biography in the Middle Ages.
Annotation:
The course aims to depict the forms and shapes of the genre of biography in the Middle Ages. It attempts to cover a broad spectrum of cultures and languages – Latin, Hebrew, Middle High German, Occitan, Old Norse or Balkan – and a full range of figures whose life medieval biography could depict: heathen and Christian kings, heroes, saints, Jesus as well as adventurers and dark heroes.
However, the course plans to offer more than an analysis and classification of biography subgenres and picturesque personalities. All the lectures should address the question of what was substantial in a human life for the medieval man, what gave it value and endowed it with meaning.
All the lectures and discussions will be in English, the lectures will be held by guest professors from foreign universities.
řednášející: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Nejeschleba, PhD., vedoucí katedry filozofie FF UP Olomouc
Přednáška se uskuteční v rámci předmětu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Série přednášek, které uvedou studenty do disciplín přímo souvisejících s dějinami středověké latiny a středověké latinské literatury, stejně jako do širšího kontextu medievistiky a částečně též neolatinistiky, jejich problémů, metod, základní literatury, vývoje a současných trendů. Cílem každé přednášky je seznámit studenty s danou disciplínou či tématem, ukázat, jaké otázky si klade, jaké problémy řeší a proč je zajímavá. Jednotliví vyučující představí konkrétní případovou studii, specifický problém či metodu.
Young German scholar Florian Deichl (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the sinister figure of Hagen in the German medieval Song of the Nibelungs and try to uncover the origins of the human fascinations by so called “dark heroes”
The lecture is a part of the cycle Life and Biography in the Middle Ages.
Annotation:
The course aims to depict the forms and shapes of the genre of biography in the Middle Ages. It attempts to cover a broad spectrum of cultures and languages – Latin, Hebrew, Middle High German, Occitan, Old Norse or Balkan – and a full range of figures whose life medieval biography could depict: heathen and Christian kings, heroes, saints, Jesus as well as adventurers and dark heroes.
However, the course plans to offer more than an analysis and classification of biography subgenres and picturesque personalities. All the lectures should address the question of what was substantial in a human life for the medieval man, what gave it value and endowed it with meaning.
All the lectures and discussions will be in English, the lectures will be held by guest professors from foreign universities.
Lecturer: Klára Soukupová (Prague).
Annotation:
The genre of autobiography is often situated on borderline between fiction and non-fiction; autobiography refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work of art, a verbal construct. The lecture concentrates on major problems of the genre of autobiography (truth, memory, subjectivity) as well as on history of autobiography (canonical texts) and it goes through development of theory of autobiography in 20th century.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Lecturer: Jürg Glauser (Zürich).
Annotation:
Icelandic literary culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still bears many traces of the medieval tradition. This is also the case when it comes to representations of self-conceptions as expressed in early modern autobiographies. The present paper deals primarily with two representative examples of the genre,
1) the priest Jón Magnússon’s (1610-96) Píslarsaga (1658-59, ‘Story of Sufferings’(English translation by Michael Fell as And Though This World with Devils filled. A Story of Sufferings, 2007)
2) Sjálfsævisaga (1750ff., ‘Autobiography’) by the priest síra Þorsteinn Pétursson á Staðarbakka (1710-85) Beyond being quite remarkable representations of autobiographies in general, the two texts display a number of features that are specific for this genre in the pre-modern era, such as the creations of individual selves in relation to God and society, the importance of Christian faith, belief, religion and theology, the vital role mental and physical health plays in the narratives. In Píslarsaga, an additional element that defines the text in a very specific manner are the descriptions of the prosecution of putative sorcerers in seventeenth century Iceland.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.