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Lecturer(s)
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Špička Jiří, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Polemics on Power and Powerlessness during the Avignon Papacy a) Dante Alighieri b) Marsilius of Padua c) Francesco Petrarca d) Saint Catherine of Siena Getting Married in Renaissance Italy: The Process and the Customs Love and Lust in Machiavelli's The Mandrake Root: A Critique of Sexual Attraction and Contemporary Marriage Eroticism in the Sacred Theatre of Renaissance Florence The Many Faces of a Renaissance Woman: The Poet Laudomia Forteguerri Between Politics and Passion?
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 6 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 12 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to present selected topics from the late medieval and Renaissance Italian culture. The first part of the course is dedicated to the reflexion of Avingnon papacy. The second part deals with feminine literature, eroticism, and marriage in Italian Renaissance. The other aim of the course is to introduce important European and American scholars to the UP students and for this reason all the course is taught by foreign scholars in English.
- Excercise of methods of thematic comparative studies - interpretation of Renaissance according to the updated methodologies - Better insight in the polemics about Avignon papacy - Better insight in the relation between poetry and politics
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge of English.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Attendance at the seminar.
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Recommended literature
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Burke. (1996). Italská renesance.
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Digrin. (1995). Divadlo učenců a diplomatů.
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Hledíková. (2013). Počátky avignonského papežství a české země.
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Špička. (2010). Petrarca: homo politicus.
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