David Campion




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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

FALL 2021

Week I Aug 30-Sep 3Introduction: America's Tudor-Stuart Legacy
Week II Sep 6-10A Medieval Prelude
Week III Sep 13-17The Tudor Revolution
Week IV Sep 20-24Protestants, Catholics, and the Battle for Supremacy
Week V Sep 27-Oct 1The Age of Elizabeth: Court and Politics
Week VI Oct 4-8The Age of Elizabeth: Religion, Diplomacy, and War
Week VII Oct 11-15Life in Merrie England
Week VIII Oct 18-22All the World's a Stage
Week IX Oct 25-29The Early Stuarts
Week X Nov 1-5Britain's Overseas Expansion
Week XI Nov 8-12The "Celtic Periphery"
Week XII Nov 15-19The Great Rebellion
Week XIII Nov 22=26The Interregnum
Week XIV Nov 29-Dec 3The Restoration
Week XV Dec 6-8Conclusion: A New Nation?



Week I: Introduction

Aug 30: Introduction: America's Tudor-Stuart legacy
Sep 1: The early history of Britain and its peoples
Sep 3: England in the late middle ages


Reading:
"Brentry: How Norman Rule reshaped England" in The Economist, Dec 2016
Simon Schama, "King Death" (Ch. 5 in History of Britain, Vol. I)




Week II: A Medieval Prelude

Sep 6: LABOR DAY (NO CLASS)
Sep 8: The Wars of the Roses and the rise of the Tudors
Sep 10: Discussion: Utopia


Reading:
Brigden, 1-37
"Nasty, Brutish and not that Short" in The Economist, Dec 2010
Thomas More, Utopia [image from 1555 edition]

Document:
Polydore Vergil, "Description of Henry VII" from Anglica Historia (1512)




Week III: The Tudor Revolution

Sep 13: Henry VIII and the "King's Great Matter"
Sep 15: The English Reformation
Sep 16: Film: A Man for All Seasons, 7-10pm, Miller 105
Sep 17: Discussion


Reading:
Brigden, 84-149, 162-178
Richard Marius, "A Man for All Seasons" in Mark C. Carnes, ed., Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies

Documents:
Thomas Cranmer, Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce (1533)
Parliament, Act of Supremacy (1534)
Henry VIII, Love letters to Anne Boleyn (1530s)
Anne Boleyn, Letter to Henry VIII (1536)
Thomas More, Letter to daughter Margaret (1535)
Richard Pollard, "The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey" (1539)
Henry VIII, Speech to Parliament (1545)


MAP EXERCISE DUE SEP 13



Week IV: Protestants, Catholics, and the Battle for Supremacy

Sep 20: Edward VI and Mary Tudor: faith, martyrdom, and exile
Sep 22: John Knox and the Scottish Reformation
Sep 24: Discussion


Reading:
Brigden, 179-212

Documents:
Anonymous, "The execution of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer" (1556) [image]
Giovanni Michieli, "A contemporary account of Mary Tudor" (1557)
John Foxe, "Persecutions in England during the reign of Queen Mary" from Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1571) [frontispiece]
John Knox, "Call to the ministry and first public debate" (1547) and "A brief exhortation to England for the speedy embracing of the Gospel heretofore by the tyranny of Mary suppressed and banished"(1559)


RESPONSE PAPER #1 DUE SEP 20



Week V: The Age of Elizabeth: Court and Politics

Sep 27: The Virgin Queen and her subjects
Sep 29: Politics, intrigue, and survival
Oct 1: Discussion


Reading:
Brigden, 213-227, 231-238
Duffy, 1-46

Documents:
John Knox, "First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women" (1558)
Elizabeth I, "When I was fair and young" (date unknown), Selected writings and speeches and Letter to Mary Queen of Scots (1586)
Mary Queen of Scots, Letter to Henry III of France (1587) [image]




Week VI: The Age of Elizabeth: Religion, Diplomacy, and War

Oct 4: Church and state: Anglicanism, Puritanism, and Catholic recusancy
Oct 6: Elizabeth's foreign policy and overseas expansion
Oct 8: FALL BREAK (NO CLASS)


Reading:
Brigden, 239-253, 263-294
Games, 1-46

Documents:
Pius V, "Regnans in Excelsis" (1570)
Thirty-Nine Articles (1571)
Edmund Campion, "Challenge to the Privy Council" (1581)
Elizabeth I, "Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh" (1584) and Speech at Tilbury against the Spanish Armada (1588)
Francis Pretty, "Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage round the world" (1580)


RESPONSE PAPER #2 DUE OCT 4



Week VII: Life in Merrie England

Oct 11: Family life and the social order of village England
Oct 13: Commerce and the growth of towns and cities
Oct 15: MIDTERM EXAMINATION


Reading:
Duffy, 47-190

Document:
William Marshall, "Draft of a poor law" (1536)




Week VIII: All the World's a Stage

Oct 18: Shakespeare and the English literary renaissance
Oct 20: Art and creativity in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Oct 22: Discussion (meet in Special Collections, Watzek Library)


Reading:
Brigden, 295-367
Kishlansky, 1-33

Documents:
Edmund Spenser, "Visions of the world's vanitie" (1591)
Robert Southwell, "Upon the image of death"(1595)
Thomas Campion, "When Laura smiles", "What then is love but mourning" and "Beauty is but a painted hell" (from Booke of Ayres, 1601)
Walter Raleigh, "The passionate man's pilgrimage" and "The silent lover" (1603)
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII [Act V, scene iv] (1613) [image, First Folio, 1623]

Music:
Selections from Elizabethan and Jacobean ensembles, virginals, songs, and lute music

Audio:
NPR, "Shakespeare's Original First Folio Sells For Almost $10 Million" (Oct 2020)


RESPONSE PAPER #3 DUE OCT 22



Week IX: The Early Stuarts

Oct 25: James I and the establishment of the Stuart monarchy
Oct 27: Toleration and persecution in Stuart England
Oct 29: Discussion


Reading:
Kishlansky, 34-112
Games, 147-179

Documents:
James I, "True Law of Free Monarchies" (1598) [frontispiece, 1641]
Parliament, "Apology of the Commons" (1604)
James I, Speech to Parliament (1609)
Archbishop William Laud, "Visitation Articles" (1635)




Week X: Britain's Overseas Expansion

Nov 1: The economy and cultures of the Atlantic world
Nov 3: Stuart Britain and the formation of early American society
Nov 5: Discussion


Reading:
Games, 47-146, 181-217
"Colonial Museums: A Different Story" in The Economist, Nov 2013

Documents:
Richard Hakluyt, "Discourse of Western planting" (1584)
First Charter of Virginia (1606) [image]
Maryland Toleration Act (1649) [image]
William Bradford, "History of the Plymouth Plantation" (c.1650)
Richard Ligon, "A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes" (1657)
Thomas Mun, "England's treasure by foreign trade" (1664) [frontispiece]


ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE NOV 1



Week XI: The "Celtic Periphery"

Nov 8: Ireland
Nov 10: Scotland and Wales
Nov 12: Discussion


Reading:
Brigden, 149-162, 227-231, 254-263
Games, 255-299

Documents:
Edmund Spenser, "A view of the present state of Ireland" (1596)
Aindrias Mac Marcais, "The Deserted Land" (c.1610)
Plantation of Ulster (1610)
Confederation of Kilkenny (1642)
Parliament, Act for the Reduction of the Rebels (1642)
Oliver Cromwell, Report from Ireland to Parliament (1649)


RESPONSE PAPER #4 DUE NOV 8



Week XII: The Great Rebellion

Nov 15: Charles I and Parliament
Nov 17: The English Civil War (or War of the Three Kingdoms), 1642-1649
Nov 19: Discussion


Reading:
Kishlansky, 113-186

Documents:
Parliament, Petition of Right (1628) [image]
Scottish National Covenant (1638) [image]
Oliver Cromwell, Letter to his brother-in-law after the battle of Marsten Moor (1644)




Week XIII: The Interregnum

Nov 22: Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell and his world
Nov 24: Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
Nov 26: THANKSGIVING (NO CLASS)


Reading:
Kishlansky, 187-212
Games, 219-253

Documents:
Statements of the Levellers (1649)
Radical women during the English Revolution [selected documents] (1649, 1656)
Thomas Macaulay, "On Oliver Cromwell" (1848)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) [frontispiece]
Commonwealth Instrument of Government (1653) [image]
John Milton, "A treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes" (1659)




Week XIV: The Restoration

Nov 29: The return of the king
Dec 1: The exclusion crisis and the beginnings of party politics
Dec 3: Discussion


Reading:
Kishlansky, 213-286

Documents:
The First English Coffee Houses (c.1675)
Parliament, Habeas Corpus Act (1679) [image]
John Evelyn, Diary (1660-1688)


RESPONSE PAPER #5 DUE NOV 29



Week XV: A New Nation?

Dec 6: Revolution and realignment
Dec 8: Conclusion: Britain in the Age of Revolution


Reading:
Kishlansky, 287-342

Documents:
Parliament, Bill of Rights (1689)
Gilbert Burnet, "The character of James II and William of Orange" (1689)
An anonymous Jacobite, "Observations upon the late revolution in England" (1690)

RESEARCH ESSAY DUE DEC 8


FINAL EXAMINATION: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 8:30-11:30 am



Claes van Visscher's map of the City of London, 1616; British Library, London

Created by campion@lclark.edu | Updated December 2021