His 3100 - History of England, 1450-1750

EIU His 3100, Fall 2012, Newton Key
12:30–1:45, TR, Coleman 2751
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. 21. 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. 23. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, “Introduction” (1-15); A Brief Cronology of Great Britain, From the first discoveries of this Isle, through the severall Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans (1656) [handout/EEBO]
- Visual and Study Sources
  - British Isles (topographical)
  - Chronology
  - Bede and the English Church

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

Aug 28. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, "Introduction" (15-31); group sign-up
- an English manor
- Medieval English Society
- Great Chain of Being
Aug. 30. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 1 (documents 1.1-1.5; always read brief ch. intro. & bring Sources to class]); EEBO title page assignment due.
- Booth Library History Resources
  - EEBO
Sat. Group a recommendations due (D2L)

week 3. 1485 Anatomized

Sept. 4. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1 (1450-1510s)
Sept. 6. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 (2.2, 2.5, 2.14 & 2.20)
- 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
Fri. Group b recommendations due (D2L)

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

Sept. 11. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 2 (1520s-40s)
Sept. 13. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.10)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sat. Group c recommendations due (D2L)

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

Sept. 18. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 3 (1540s-1550s)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sept. 20. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (docs. 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.16)
- Visual and Study Sources
Sat. Group d & e recommendations due (d2l)

week 6. Elizabeth and Isles (The Settlements)

Sept. 25. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 4 (1558-85)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Early English Books Online (oncampus link)
  - Mary and Elizabeth timeline
Sept. 27. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 5 (1585-1603); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (4.1, 4.3, 4.4, & documents chosen by group leaders)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Early English Books Online (oncampus link)
  - British Isles map
  - Elizabeth, National Portrait Gallery
  - 1558-1570
  - 1571-1585

week 7. Elizabeth and the World (The Unsettlement)

Oct. 2. MID-TERM EXAM 1
Oct. 4. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (4.17 and documents chosen by group “e” leaders)
- Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech, 1588
- Elizabeth's Golden Speech, 1601
- War with Spain
- 1586-1603

week 8. An Unordered Society?

Oct. 9. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s, pp. 158-84)
Oct. 11. Winstanley (movie); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (5.1–5.4);
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Witchcraft and Demonology

witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618

week 9. An Ungovernable People?

Oct. 16. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s, pp. 185-211); Tudor sources paper due
- Visual and Study Sources
  - charivari/skimmington
  - Winstanley (1975)
Oct. 18. Winstanley (movie); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (all) & 7.15
- History of Myddle (1701)

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

Oct. 23. 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. 25. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 6 (6.1, 6.4, 6.6-6.9)
- 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

Oct. 30. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 5 & 7 (all documents in 5 & 7.15)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Remember, Remember the 5th of November (1604)
Nov. 1. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 5 & 7 (all documents in 5 & 7.15)

week 12. Contextualizing Winstanley

Nov. 6. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 5 & 7 (esp. 5.13-5.17, 6.1, and 71.5)
Nov. 8. Contextualizing Winstanley EXAM (MID-TERM II)

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

week 13. Early Stuarts, Civil War, and Revolution, 1603-58

Nov. 13. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7-8
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658
  - ODNB (oncampus link)
  - EEBO (oncampus link)
  - Petition of Right (1629)
  - William Laud, Speech...Concerning Pretended Innovations in the Church (14 June 1637)
Nov. 15. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7

week 14. Reform, Revolt, Revolution(s), 1640-1658 (updated)

Nov. 27. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 7 (pp. 242-249) & 8 (250-267); Revolutionary England/EEBO newsbook Revolutionary England pre-assignment due (bring copy to class)
- Visual and Study Sources
  - Causes of the English Civil War (UK A-Levels timeline & questions)
  - English Civil War maps
    - 1642-1645
Nov. 29. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 8 (pp. 267-276); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7 (bring and be ready to discuss at least 7 documents chosen for your paper)
- Putney Debates, 1647 (explained)
- Putney Debates, 1647 (document)
- Diggers, c. 1649
- Levellers, 1649
- Women's Petition, 1649

week 15. Restorations and (another) Revolution, 1658-1689 (updated)

Dec. 4. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 9; Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 8 (8.1-8.4, plates 11-12, bring to class)
- Revolutionary England paper due
- Timeline, 1603-1685
Dec. 6. Conclusion, Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, pp. 353 & 388-391
Dec. 10. Final Exam, Monday, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

His 3100 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 usually offer A History of Britain and the British Empire from 1714 to the Present, His 3110, in the Spring (the next time it is scheduled is probably Sprin 2014).

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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