His 3100 - History of England, 1450-1750

EIU His 3100, Fall 2011, Newton Key
12:30–1:45, TR, Coleman 2691
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/3100.htm
Syllabus as pdf (brief version)

History of England, 1450-1730

week 1. The Material and the Mental Worlds of the English

Aug. 23. When was England?
- Visual and Study Sources
  - John White (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
  - 13th century Mappa Mundi (1, 2, 3, 4 [Anglia, Wallia, Hibernia], 5, 6, 7 [Jerusalem])
Aug. 25. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, “Introduction” (1-22)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - British Isles (topographical)
  - Chronology
  - group sign-up
  - Bede and the English Church

week 2. Getting Medieval?: Early, Early Modern English Society

Aug 30. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, "Introduction" (22-31)
- an English manor
- Medieval English Society
- Great Chain of Being
Sept. 1. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 1 (documents 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, & 1.8 [always read 1-to-2-pp. ch. intro. & bring Sources to class])
- Booth Library History Resources
  - EEBO
Sept. 3. Sat. Group a recommendations due (online)

week 3. 1485 Anatomized

Sept. 6. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1 (1450-1510s); EEBO title page assignment due (note change).
Sept. 8. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 (2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.14)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Bosworth
    - Battle of Bosworth
    - Bosworth Maps and Images from Battlefields Trust
  - Lancastrian/Tudor and Yorkist Family Tree
  - Tudor England: Images
    - Henry VII
    - Henry VIII
  - Henry VII and the Pretenders
Sept. 9. Fri. Group b recommendations due (online)

week 4. Henrician Church and State (Reformation and/or Tudor Revolution?)

Sept. 13. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 2 (1520s-40s)
Sept. 15. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sept. 16. Sat. Group c recommendations due (online)

week 5. Reforming and Reactionary Zeal (A "Little Tudors" Crisis?)

Sept. 20. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 3 (1540s-1550s)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sept. 22. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (3.12-3.18)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sept. 23. Fri. Group d recommendations due (online)
Sept. 24. Sat. group e recommendations due (online)

week 6. Elizabeth and Isles (The Settlements)

Sept. 27. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 4 (1558-85); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (4.1-4.2, 4.4-4.5, 4.7–4.9)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Early English Books Online (oncampus link)
  - Mary and Elizabeth timeline
Sept. 29. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (4.13, 4.17, 4.19 & other docs. from 4.10 as chosen by group "e" leaders)
- Visual and Study Sources

week 7. Elizabeth and the World (The Unsettlement)

Oct. 4. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 5 (1585-1603)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Early English Books Online (oncampus link)
  - British Isles map
  - Elizabeth, National Portrait Gallery
  - War with Spain
Oct. 6. Elizabethan Unsettling
- Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech, 1588
- Elizabeth's Golden Speech, 1601

week 8. An Unordered Society?

Oct. 11. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s), pp. 158-84
- MID-TERM EXAM (note changed date)
Oct. 13. Winstanley (movie); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (5.1–5.8)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Witchcraft and Demonology

witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618

week 9. An Ungovernable People?

Oct. 18. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s), pp. 185-211
- Visual and Study Sources
  - charivari/skimmington
  - Winstanley (1975)
Oct. 20. Winstanley (movie); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (5.9–5.17) & 7.15
- History of Myddle (1701)
- Tudor sources paper due (note changed date)

week 10. The Early Stuarts and the Crisis of Parliaments, 1603-1641

Oct. 25. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
- Visual and Study Sources
  - The Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace (Flemish, early 17th century)
Oct. 27. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 6 (6.1, 6.4, 6.6-6.9, 6.13-6.17)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - James VI & I, A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 (part)

week 11. The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642

Nov. 1. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (review)
Nov. 3. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 6 & 7 (handout)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Remember, Remember the 5th of November (1604)

Van Dyck, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, with his dog. c.1633

week 12. Civil War and Revolution, 1642-58

Nov. 8.Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
Nov. 10. Contextualizing Winstanley EXAM

Charles I executed in front of the Banquetting Hall (17th c.)

week 13. Restorations, 1658-1685

Nov. 15. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7 (7 docs. 7.6-7.19 for your paper); EEBO newsbook Revolutionary England pre-assignment due
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658
  - ODNB (oncampus link)
  - EEBO (oncampus link)
  - Petition of Right (1629)
  - Statutes, 1640-1642
  - William Laud, A Speech...Concerning Pretended Innovations in the Church (14 June 1637)
  - Timeline 1630s
Nov. 17. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 8; Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 8 (8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.10)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Causes of the English Civil War (Timeline and questions for UK A-Levels)
  - English Civil War maps
    - animated
    - 1642-1645
  - Putney Debates, 1647 (explained)
  - Putney Debates, 1647 (document)
  - The Diggers, c. 1649
  - The Levellers, 1649
  - Women's Petition, 1649

week 14. Another inevitable revolution?

Nov. 29. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 9-10 (1685-1702, pp. 300-330)
Dec. 1. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 8-9 (8.12-8.15 & 9.1-9.5);

week 15. The Making of a Ruling Class

Dec. 6. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 9-10 (1702-1730s, pp. 330-377); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 9 (9.18-9.24); Revolutionary England paper due
Dec. 8. Conclusion
Dec. 12, Mon. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Final Exam

His 3100 (# 93619) examines early modern England–primarily the age ruled by Tudor and Stuart monarchs, but shaped by many English men and women both commoners and aristocrats. Besides the political and religious narrative, we examine sources on specific intellectual, political, social, religious, and economic issues confronting the English (and Welsh, Scottish, and Irish) peoples.

Course goals include:

introducing (and general mastery of) a basic political and religious narrative of English history from the late 15th to early 18th centuries
understanding how English history specifics relate to the more general concepts of state-building, core-periphery, religious reformations and divisions, civil war, revolution, social stratification, empire, multiple kingdoms, popular and elite culture, gender relations, millenarianism, and absolute and constitutional monarchy
introducing and discussing various early modern sources, from public legal acts and parliamentary debates to private diaries and anonymous notes
introducing and using the tools of modern research, including the Oxford English Dictionary online, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, and Early English Books Online
furthering ability to do history, through research and writing

I offer A History of Britain and the British Empire from 1714 to the Present, His 3110, in the Spring.

Texts

Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed. (2009) [TRS 14.835]
Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds., Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, 2nd ed. (2009) [TRS 14.900]

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History of England, 1450-1730

witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618

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