His 3100 - History of England, 1450-1750

EIU His 3100, Fall 2008, Newton Key
T, Th 14:00-15:15, Coleman 2741
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/3100.htm
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History of England, 1450-1730

Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History (2004) [TRS 13.906]
Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds., Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714 (2004) [TRS 12.755]

week 1. When was England?

Aug. 26. Introduction.
Aug. 28. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, pp. 1-14

week 2. Late Medieval English Society

Sept. 2. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, "Introduction"
- group sign-up
Sept. 4. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 1 (intro. & docs. 1.1-1.3 & 1.5-1.6 & 1.8)

Assasination of Wat Tyler, Peasants' Revolt, 1381

week 3. 1485 Anatomized

Sept. 9. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1 (1450-1510s)
- group a recommendations due
Sept. 11. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 (readings below, lead by group "a")
- 2.3 Richard III's Proclamation against Henry (June 23, 1485) {Avis C.}
  2.4 Henry's Speech to his Army before the Battle of Bosworth Field (August 22?, 1485; from Hall's Chronicle, pub. 1548) {Tyler W.}
  2.x The Declaration of “Richard IV” (ca. 1485) [handout] {Kayla D.}
  2.5 Trial and Execution of Perkin Warbeck and Others (November 18–December 4, 1499) {Erin?}
  2.y Articles against Cardinal Wolsey, signed by the Lords (December 1, 1529) [handout] {Dan O.}
  2.11 Submission of Two Ulster Chiefs (August 6 and October 1, 1541) {Derrick J.}
- group b recommendations due
- Bosworth
  - Battle of Bosworth
  - Bosworth Maps and Images from Battlefields Trust
- Lancastrian/Tudor and Yorkist Family Tree
- Henry VII's Face (allows you to rearrange it; of no educational value, but humorous if you are a Yorkist)
Tudor England: Images
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII

week 4. Henrician Church and State

Sept. 16. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 2 (1520s-1540s)
Sept. 18. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (pre-1547, lead by group "b")
- Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (pre-1547)
  3.1“The State of Melford Church…as I, Roger Martyn, Did Know It” (ca. late sixteenth century) Hannah M
  3.2 Confession of John Pykas of Colchester (March 7, 1527) Amy S
  3.x Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn (n.d., ca. July 1528) [handout] Julie C
  3.y Cardinal Campeggio, Papal Legate in England, to Jacobo, Cardinal Salviati, secretary to Pope Clement VII (October 25, 1528) [handout] Julie C/Benjamin J
  3.4 Answer of the Ordinaries (1532) Benjamin J/Michelle D
  3.z Submission of the Clergy (May 15, 1532) [handout] Michelle D
  3.5Pontefract Articles (December 2–4, 1536) Trisha S
- group c recommendations due (Monday)
- Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn (1520s)
- Act in Restraint of Appeals; Act of Supremacy (1532, 1534)
- Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce (1533)
- Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)
- Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey (1539)
- Act of Six Articles (1539)
- English Reformation Sources

week 5. Reforming and Reactionary Zeal

Sept. 23. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 3 (1540s-1550s)
- Edward VI and Somerset
- Northumberland
- Mary (Sommerville)
Sept. 25. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (post-1547, lead by group "c")
- 3.x Anne Askew’s “Sum of My Examination Afore the King’s Council at Greenwich” (1546, pub. 1547) [handout] Ashley B
  3.6 Cranmer's Answer to the Fifteen Articles of the Devon Rebels (1549) Shannon C
  3.y The Vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553) [handout] Christina G
  3.7 Robert Parkyn's Narrative of the Reformation (ca. 1555) Andy L
  3.z Report on Marian Persecution to Philip of Spain from Simon Renard at London (February 5, 1555) [handout] Kayla F
  3.9 The Elizabethan Injunctions (1559) Erin A-S
- Religious Developments and Government Officials under Mary
- English Reformation Sources

week 6. Elizabeth and Isles

Sept. 30. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 4 (1558-85)
- Foxe's "Book of Martyrs": John Foxe Project (a varorioum edition)
- Early English Books Online
- Mary and Elizabeth timeline
Oct. 2. MID-TERM EXAM I
- group d recommendations due (Monday, Oct. 6.)

week 7. Elizabeth and the World

Oct. 7. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 5 (1585-1603)
Oct. 9. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (1558-1603, lead by group "d")
- 4.1 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, A New Passage to Cataia , “What commodities would ensue, this passage once discovered” (1578) Jessica M
  4.2 Richard Hakluyt, The First English Voyage Made to the Coasts of America (1589) Kit S
  4.x Sir Henry Sidney to Queen Elizabeth on Munster and Connaught (April 20, 1567) [handout] Ashlie C
  4.3 Earl of Essex , “The State of Ireland, as it appeared … during the Rebellion in 1599” (1599) Jessica L
  4.4 The House of Commons' Report on Mary and Elizabeth 's Reply (November 24, 1586) [esp. Elizabeth 's Reply] and 4.y Elizabeth to James VI of Scotland (February 14, 1587) [handout] Drew M
  4.7 Queen Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech (August 9, 1588) Jennifer Walta 4.11 Archbishop Grindal to Elizabeth on Prophesyings (December 20, 1576) Greg K
- Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech, 1588
- Elizabeth's Golden Speech, 1601
- Elizabeth, National Portrait Gallery
- ODNB
- War with Spain

Elizabeth (1998), imaginary speech on the religious settlement and parliamentary petitions concerning her marriage, 1550s-60s

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Tilbury Speech, 1588

week 8. An Unordered Society?

Oct. 14. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s), pp. 152-69
- Witchcraft and Demonology
Oct. 16. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (lead by group "e")
- 5.3 Examination of Anne Carter and Others Regarding the Maldon Riot (1629) Mike R-H
  5.x Justice Harvey's opinion on a Star Chamber case (1631) Dan B [handout]
  5.4 Sir Roger Wilbraham on Enclosure Riots in the East Midlands (ca. mid-June–December 6, 1607) Frederick B
  5.y “The Examinations of Philippa Flower” (1619) Katelyn A [handout]
  5.7 Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) Brad D
  5.9 Edward Hext, Somerset JP, to Lord Burghley on the Increase of Rogues and Vagabonds (September 25, 1596) Steve T
  5.10 Poor Relief Act (39 Eliz. I, c. 3) (1598) Eric F

charivari

witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618

week 9. An Ungovernable People?

Oct. 21. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1640s), pp. 169-93
Booth Library
Oct. 23. Tudor sources paper due (new due date, firm, Mon., 27 Oct. by Noon)
- Suggestions on earlymodernengland.blogspot.com

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

Oct. 28. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
- Map Quiz make-up (worth 5 pts. on Mid-Term 1: know London, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, Norwich, Edinburgh ( Holyrood Palace ), Paris, Antwerp, Douai, Welsh Marches, Tilbury, Flushing (now Vlissingen ), Ulster, Munster, The Pale, Connaught, Dublin, Westminster (Whitehall), Greenwich, Berwick, and relation to Early Modern, chs. 4, 5, 7)
Oct. 30. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 6 (pp. 134-46 and docs. 6.1-6.6)
- James VI & I, A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 (part)

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

Nov. 4. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 6 (pp. 146-53 and docs. 6.7-6.15)
- Remember, Remember the 5th of November (1604)
- Petition of Right (1629)
- Statutes, 1640-1642
- William Laud, A Speech...Concerning Pretended Innovations in the Church (14 June 1637)
- Timelines
  - 1630s
Nov. 6. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7 (again)
- student introductions 1, 2

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

week 12. Reform and Civil Wars, 1640-1646

Nov. 11. MID-TERM EXAM II (note new date)
Nov. 13. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 8 (pp. 238-258); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7 (intro.)
- Causes of the English Civil War (Timeline and questions for UK A-Levels)
- Revised sourcebook cover

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

week 13. Revolutions and Restorations, 1642-1660

Nov. 18. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 8
- English Civil War maps

Putney Debates, 1647 (explained)
Putney Debates, 1647 (document)
The Diggers, c. 1649
The Levellers, 1649
Women's Petition, 1649

Nov. 20. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7
- Revolutionary England pre-assignment due

week 14. Another inevitable revolution?

Dec. 2. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 9-10 (to p. 317)
Dec. 4. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 8-9 (to be assigned)

week 15. The Making of a Ruling Class

Dec. 9. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 9-10 (1702-1730s, pp. 317-344)
- Revolutionary England paper due
Dec. 11. Conclusion
- Final Review
Final Exam

His 3100 examines early modern England--the age of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Besides the political and religious narrative, we examine sources on specific intellectual, political, social, religious, and economic issues confronting the English (and Scottish and Irish) peoples. It allows you to understand and to use the materials used by historians of early English history.

A History of Britain and the British Empire from 1714 to the Present, His 3110, is usually offered in the Spring (Spring 2009 I will teach at Harlaxton College in UK offering Modern Britain, Irish History, and English Revolutions; see me, if interested in a semester abroad).

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History of England, 1450-1730

Elizabeth (1998), imaginary speech on the religious settlement and parliamentary petitions concerning her marriage, 1550s-60s Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Tilbury Speech, 1588

charivari

witches of Bottesford, Leicestershire, 1618

last modified on November 13, 2008

Elizabeth (1998), imaginary speech on the religious settlement and parliamentary petitions concerning her marriage, 1550s-60s

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Tilbury Speech, 1588