HIST 3240

LINKS FOR ONLINE RESOURCES

British National Archives

Tudor History.org

Halsall: Internet Sourcebooks

Eurodocs

Luminarium

Gunpowder Plot Society

Renaissance Editions

Course Schedule
Week 1, Course Introduction:
T (09/08) Course Introduction
Th (09/10) Overview of British History to 1399.

Week 2, Before the Tudors:
T (09/15) The Question of Succession & “Economic Collapse and Social Dislocation”
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapter 1, pp. 3-23; and chapter 2, pp. 24-47.
Th (09/17) “The Lion and the Unicorn”
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapter 3, pp. 48-70.

Week 3, A New Era:
T (09/22) Primary Sources: Bosworth Field: Different Views of a Turning Point.
Reading Assignment: Web primary sources relating to the Battle of Bosworth Field.
FIRST WRITTEN REVIEW DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
Th (09/24) Social Change and Henry VII
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapters 4 and 5, pp. 73-109.

Week 4, The Tudor Family, Continued:
T (09/29) Henry VIII and the Reformation
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapters 6 and 7, pp. 110-145. Primary Sources: Tudor Documents: Love Letters, Beheadings, and Other Affairs of State. Reading Assignment: Web primary sources relating to the Tudors.
Th (10/01) “The Little Tudors”; Elizabeth, part I
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapters 8 & 9, pp. 149-167, & pp. 168-210.

Week 5, Elizabeth, and the Coming of the Stuarts:
T(10/06) Primary Sources: The Spanish Armada.
Reading Assignment: Web sources on the Armada.
SECOND WRITTEN REVIEW DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
Th(10/08) Elizabeth, part II; James I
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapters 10 & 11, pp. 211-239 & pp. 243-267.

Week 6, The March toward War:
T (10/13) “Charles I and the Royal Road to War”
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapter 12, pp. 268-291. Primary Sources: Constitutional History
Reading Assignment: Web documents pertaining to the English Constitution.
Th (10/15) Histriomastix and forging history for the Puritan cause.

Week 7, War, The Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution:
T (10/20) “This Bloody and Unnatural War”
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapter 13, pp. 292-315. Primary Sources: Crime and Punishment.
Reading Assignment: Web documents pertaining to executions.
THIRD WRITTEN REVIEW DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
Th (10/22) The Stuarts, take two; “The Triumph of the Oligarchs”
Reading Assignment: Smith, chapters 14 & 15, pp. 319-339. & pp. 340-360.

Week 8, Midterm:
T (10/27) 1st 1/2 of course matter concluded & review session.
Th (10/29) Midterm!!!!!

Week 9, The Reformation Revisited:
T (11/03) Review of Test/Introduction to issues in the English Reformation.
Th (11/05) Turmoil and Diversity, the re-making of Western Religion.
Reading Assignment: “The Religious Climate of Tudor and Stuart England.” (Available on the course website.)
Week 10, Society and Culture, A Closer Look at Everyday Life:
T (11/10) Introduction to Social History and the Cambridge Group.
Reading Assignment: Laslett, Introductions and chapter 1.
W (11/12) A One-Class Society. The Village People.
Reading Assignment: Laslett, chapters 2 & 3.
Week 11, Everyday Life, part 2:
T (11/17) “Misbeliefs about our Ancestors.”
Reading Assignment: Laslett, chapter 4.
Th (11/19) Discussion.
Reading Assignment: Laslett, chapter 5, 6, or 7, as assigned, and 8, 9, or 10, as assigned.
Week 12 Laslett, concluded, introduction to the Issues of the Civil War:
T (11/24) Then and Now.
Reading Assignment: Laslett, chapters 11 and 12.
Week 13 Cromwell:
T (12/01) Movie: Cromwell.
TH (12/03) Movie: Cromwell.

Week 14 The Scientific Revolution and the New Atlantis:
T(12/08) The Scientific Revolution in England, part 1.
FOURTH WRITTEN REVIEW DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
Th(12/10) The Scientific Revolution in England, part 2. Introduction to the debate over, Francis Bacon.

Week 15 The New Atlantis
T (12/15) Part 1. Reading Assignment: The New Atlantis. (Available at the course website.)
Th (12/17) Review. RESEARCH PAPER DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS

FINAL EXAMINATION: Monday, 21 Dec., 8:00 - 9:55 a.m.

Supplementary Readings

The Battle of Bosworth Field: Sources

Tudor Documents: Sources for Week 4

Sources for Week 5

Speech of Elizabeth I on the Spanish Armada

English Mercurie: Rag-Stock Account of the Armada

Sources for Week 6

Constitutional History Sources

For Week 9

The Religious Climate of Tudor and Stuart England

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