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

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

Cleric, Knight, and Workman
week 3. 1485 Anatomized Richard III
week 4. Henrician Church and State (Reformation and/or Tudor Revolution?) Anne Boleyn
week 5. Reforming and Reactionary Zeal (A "Little Tudors" Crisis?) Edward VI and the Pope (an allegory)
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)
  • 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)
book frontespiece
week 7. Elizabeth and the World (The Unsettlement)
Elizabeth, the Armada portrait


week 8. An Unordered Society?
  • Oct. 11. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s), pp. 158-84
  • Oct. 13. Winstanley (movie); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (5.1–5.8)
witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618
week 9. An Ungovernable People? Cucking stool (17th cent.)
week 10. The Early Stuarts and the Crisis of Parliaments, 1603-1641
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)
Van Dyck, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, with his dog. c.1633

week 12. Civil War and Revolution, 1642-58


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

week 13. Restorations, 1658-1685
Charles II in St. James Park behind Whitehall
 
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);
 
William enters London (17th c., Dutch print)

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:

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

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