His 3100 - History of England, 1450-1700

EIU His 3100, Spring 2019, Newton Key
10:00-10:50, MWF, Coleman 2761
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/3100.htm
Syllabus as pdf (brief version)

History of England, 1066-1688 (draft, updated through week 2)

week 1. Introduction

Jan. 7. When was England?
- A Brief Cronology of Great Britain (1656)
- John White (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- 13th century Mappa Mundi (1, 2, 3, 4 [Anglia, Wallia, Hibernia], 5, 6, 7 [Jerusalem])
Jan. 9. What/Where was England?
- Kesserling, Trial, 1-2
- Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, 1-15
Jan. 11. Who was England?
- Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, 15-31
  - British Isles (topographical)
  - Chronology

week 2. Late Medieval English Society

Jan. 14. Quiz on Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, introduction & A Brief Cronology of Great Britain (1656) [d2l]; Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 0, pp. A-H (d2l)
- an English manor
- Medieval English Society
Jan. 16. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 1 (documents 1.1-1.5; always read brief ch. intro. & bring Sources to class)
Jan. 18. Kesserling, Trial, 1-8; 19-32; Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, 57-262

week 3. 1485 Anatomized (Q)

Sept. 6. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1 (1450-1510s)
- Bosworth Maps & Images
- Lancastrian/Tudor and Yorkist Family Tree (one view; see also Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, Genealogy 1, p. 429)
Sept. 8. Medieval Monarchs Assignment due.
- Presentations; write-up due Sept. 9, d2l

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

Sept. 13. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1 (1450-1510s)

Bosworth Maps & Images
Lancastrian/Tudor and Yorkist Family Tree (one view; see also Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, Genealogy 1, p. 429)

Sept. 15. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 2 (1520s-40s)
- Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn (1520s)
- Act in Restraint of Appeals; Act of Supremacy (1532, 1534)
- Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce (1533)
- Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey (1539)
- Great Bible (title page, 1539)

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

Sept. 20. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, 3.1-3.9 (group "a" leaders);
- Prof. J.P. Sommerville's site
Sept. 22. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, 3.10-3.18 (group "b" leaders); Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 3 (1540s-1550s, part tba)
- Religious Developments & Government Officials under Mary
- Foxe's Actes and Monuments
  - images (links to various reproductions)
  - John Foxe Project (a variorum ed.)

week 6. Elizabeth and the Isles

Online Only. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 4
- Mary and Elizabeth timeline
- Booth Library History Resources
  - EEBO

week 7. Elizabeth and Isles (The Settlements)

Oct. 4. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 5
- British Isles map
- Elizabeth
  - National Portrait Gallery
    - 1558-1570
    - 1571-1585
Oct. 6. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, 4.1-4.14 (group "c" leaders)

week 8. An Ordered Society?; Or an Ungovernable People? (OD)

Oct. 11. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 6 (1500s-1620s)

Oct. 13. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (as assigned); Tudor sources paper due

week 9. The Early Stuarts and the Crisis of Parliaments, 1603-41 (Q)

Oct. 18.Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
Oct. 20. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 6 (6.1, 6.4, 6.6-6.9)
- History of Myddle (1701)
- James VI & I, A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 (part)

week 10. The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-42 (Q)

Oct. 25. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
- The Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace (Flemish, early 17th cent.)
Oct. 27. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 6 & 7 (6.19-6.20, 7.1-7.5)
- Petition of Right (1629)
- William Laud, Speech...Concerning Pretended Innovations in the Church (14 June 1637)

week 11. Rebellions to Revolt, 1637-1642

Nov. 1. EXAM II
Nov. 3. Kesselring, Trial of Charles, Part I

week 12. Civil War, and Revolution, 1642-58 (OD)

Nov. 8. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 8
- Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658
- ODNB (oncampus link)
- EEBO (oncampus link)
- English Civil War maps
  - 1642-1645
Nov. 10. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7 (as assigned); Kesselring, Trial of Charles, Part II
- Putney Debates, 1647 (document)
- Diggers, c. 1649
- Women's Petition, 1649

Cromwell

week 13. Restorations, 1658-85 (Q)

Nov. 15. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 9 (277-300); Trial pre-assignment due; Trial Preparation
- Timeline, 1603-1685
Nov. 17. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 8 (as assigned): Trial of Charles

week 14. Another inevitable revolution? (OD)

Nov. 29. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 9-10 (1685-1702, pp. 300-330); Revolutionary England paper due
Dec. 1. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, chs. 8-9 (8.11-8.15, 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)
Dec. 8. Conclusion
Dec. 12. FINAL EXAM, Mon., 10:15-12:15

Current catalog description: "HIS 3100 - History of England, 1066-1688. (3-0-3) F. A survey of the History of England and the British Isles from the Norman conquest to the Glorious Revolution. WI, NUS. Credits: 3." We begin even before 1066 and quickly move to the fifteenth century. Especially featured will be early modern England–an age ruled by Tudor and Stuart monarchs, but shaped by many men and women both commoners and aristocrats. We trace the politics, religion, and society from pre-modern Medieval antecedents to the cusp of imperial domination and the rise of the modern metropolis (London). We also examine sources on specific intellectual, political, social, religious, and economic issues confronting the English (and Welsh, Scottish, and Irish) peoples, both those unique to the age and those with which we still wrestle today.
By the end of this course, you should be able to:

List, describe, and rank causes and effects of key events and actors in English history from the late 15th to early 18th centuries
Define, distinguish, and apply abstract concepts (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) to specific key events and trends in that narrative
Find, interpret, analyze, and reference (cite) different types of early modern primary sources (public legal acts, newspaper accounts, and parliamentary debates to private diaries and anonymous notes, especially print culture sources from images to pamphlets)
Locate and apply the tools of modern research, including the Oxford English Dictionary online, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, and Early English Books Online
Select, assess (in terms of value and limitations), and analyze primary sources in order to evaluate arguments about early modern England. In other words, do history (research, write, present, lead)

I often offer two related courses: A History of Britain and the British Empire from 1714 to the Present, His 3110; and His 4815 History of Ireland and the Irish, 1600 to the Present. Ask me when they are next offered, if interested.

Texts

Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed. (2009) [TRS 14.835]
Krista Kesserling, ed., Trial of Charles I (2016) [TRS 11.472]
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, 1066-1688 (draft, updated through week 2)

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