His 3100 - History of England, 1350-1714

EIU His 3100, Fall 2005, Newton Key
T, Th 11:00-12:15, Coleman 2751
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~cfnek/syllabi/3100.htm
Syllabus as pdf (brief version)

History of England, 1350-1714

Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History (2004)
Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds., Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714 (2004) [All Textbook Services]
Required Printouts*; Required Handouts**

week 1. When was England?

Aug. 23. Introduction.
Aug. 25. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, pp. 1-14

week 2. Late Medieval English Society.

Aug. 30. Black, British Isles, pp. 36-7 & 68-95 (handout/online reserve); Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, "Introduction"
Sept. 1. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 1 (intro. & docs. 1.1-1.3 & 1.5-1.6 & 1.8)
- group sign-up

week 3. 1485 Anatomized.

Sept. 6. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch.1
Sept. 8. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 (intro. only)
- [group "2" document ranking due]
- Battle of Bosworth
- Paston Letters, Part I

week 4. Henrician Church and State.

Sept. 13. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, chs. 1-2
Sept. 15. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 (docs. as announced by group "2")

week 5. The Hundred Years' War.

Sept. 21. Hollister, Making, chs. 10 & 11
Sept. 23. Hollister, Making, ch. 12

week 6. War of the Roses: Bastard Feudalism.

Sept. 28. Bucholz and Key, "Early Modern," ch. 0, "Medieval Prologue..., 1377-1485"*; group 1 document ranking due
Sept. 30. MID-TERM EXAM I

Assasination of Wat Tyler, Peasants' Revolt, 1381

week 7. Tudor State, 1485-1525.

Oct. 5. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 1; group 2 document ranking due
Oct. 7. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, documents 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, and 2.7 (Tudor Revolution discussion lead by group 1)

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)

week 8. Reform and Reaction, 1525-1547.

Oct. 12. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 2; group 3 document ranking due
Oct. 14. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, documents 3.2, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 (Reformations discussion lead by group 2)

week 9. Religious Zeal, 1547-1558.

Oct. 19. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 3; group 4 document ranking due
Oct. 21. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, documents 4.1, 4.3, 4.6, and 4.7, and some discussion of 4.13 (Elizabethan Worlds discussion lead by group 3)

"The Myth of the English Reformation," by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Religious Developments and Government Officials under Mary

week 10. Elizabeth, England, and the World, 1558-1603.

Oct. 26. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 4-5; group 5 document ranking due
Oct. 28. MID-TERM EXAM II

week 11. The Early Stuarts and the Crisis of Parliaments, 1603-1641.

Nov. 2. MID-TERM EXAM II
Nov. 4. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9 (Disorder discussion lead by group 4); Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14, 6.15 (Early Stuart discussion lead by group 5)

James VI & I, A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 (part)
Petition of Right, 1629
Statutes, 1640-1642

week 12. The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1641.

Nov. 9. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 7
Nov. 11. Tudor and Early Stuart sources paper due

chronology, from 1625
William Laud, A Speech...Concerning Pretended Innovations in the Church, 14 June 1637

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

week 13. Civil War and Revolution, 1642-1660.

Nov. 16. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 14
Nov. 18. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 7 (all); Revolutionary England pre-assignment due
- Causes of the English Civil War (Timeline and questions for UK A-Levels)
- History of the English Civil Wars
- Putney Debates, 1647
- The Diggers, c. 1649
- The Levellers, Statement of the World, 1649
- Women's Petition, 1649

Robert Lemon, ed., Catalogue...of Printed Broadsides (1866), 120.

week 14. Interregnum, Restoration, and Revolution, 1660-88

Nov. 30. Bucholz and Key, Early Modern, ch. 9
Dec. 2. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 8 (pp. 219-25 & docs. 8.1-8.5)

Pictures for weeks 6, 8-10, & 14 from London: Places and History (New York, 1998).

week 15. When was the English Revolution?

Dec. 7. Revolutionary England paper due
Dec. 9. Conclusion

1660-1702, Charles II to James II (BBC Online)
Final Exam Review

Hist 3100 examines the narrative of English history from William I to William III: from the end of the Anglo-Saxons to the Glorious Revolution. It also examines specific intellectual, political, social, religious, and economic problems of the period in depth. It allows you to understand and to use the materials used by historians of early English history.

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History of England, 1350-1714

Robert Lemon, ed., Catalogue...of Printed Broadsides (1866), 120.

Pictures for weeks 6, 8-10, & 14 from London: Places and History (New York, 1998).

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