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.
Lecturer: Ryan Szpiech (Michigan).
Annotation:
In this lecture, I will discuss the first-person accounts of various medieval religious converts including Hermann the Jew, Abner of Burgos, and Anselm Turmeda. I will consider how the basic form of a conversion story—from Paul and Augustine to Bunyon, Rousseau, and Joyce—lends itself to narrative drama, suggesting that autobiography is not just a portrait of the self, but a story of the self’s transformation.
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.
Přednnášku pronese PHDr. Jakub Razim, PhD. et PhD., PF MU Brno, PF UP Olomouc.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
Lecturer: Petr Kučera (Hamburg).
Annotation:
It has been assumed by scholars that, in the Ottoman world, autobiographies were extremely rare due to the collectivist nature of the Ottoman-Islamic culture where adherence to a fixed canon of narrative instruments and a strict separation between the public and the private formed an obstacle to the individualistic expression of the Self. This lecture will show that it is rather our fixation on certain genres that hinders us to see autobiographical traits in texts that usually do not fit the category “autobiography”. Furthermore, it will offer an analysis of one of the most famous Ottoman-Turkish autobiographical works, Osman Ağa’s fascinating account of his captivity in Austria and his subsequent carrier as interpreter and diplomat for the Imperial Court (written 1724-1725).
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. Pavel Nývlt, PhD., Kabinet pro klasická studia FÚ AV ČR, vedoucí .
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
Lecturer: Stephan Guth (Oslo)
Annotation:
Based on selected sample texts, the lecture seeks to give a brief overview over the most prominent types of Arab(ic) autobiographical writing in the premodern period, not however without profiling these against later developments. A central question will be the perception of the self and its role in the world.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Lecturer: Jeff Rider (Connecticut).
Annotation:
Guibert of Nogent (c. 1060 – c. 1125) was a northern French Benedictine monk, historian and theologian who ended his life as the abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy. His autobiographical work – De vita sua sive monodiarum suarum libri tres – is usually considered the first autobiography since Agustine’s Confessions. He was raised by his widowed mother, and his childhood, which he describes in some detail in his autobiography, seems to have been especially complex and stressful and offers us intriguing insights into family dynamics at the end of the eleventh century.
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.
Předášku pronese Mgr. Tomáš Klír, PhD., Ústav pro archeologii FF UK.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.