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Lecture Topics
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Documents & readings
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1.
Introduction: society and ideas (1/23-25)
Part I
Part II |
Shakespeare on England
Who Was Shakespeare?
by William Rubinstein
Britain in 1500 by Steven Gunn
Wrong Side of the River by Jessica Browner.
Elizabethan Life |
2.
English institutions (1/30-2/1)
Monarchy and government
The Church and Religion -I
The Church and Religion - II |
Britain in 1600 by John Miller
From David Hume's History of England
Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Bancroft - Survey
Barrow - Discovery |
3.
English society (2/6-8):
Social structure
Women in society
The Family
The Economy
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Description Of Elizabethan England
English population
Cleaver & Dod - Household government
Macfarlane on Stone |
4.
Divine Right, Patriarchalism, Common Law and Constitutionalism (2/13-2/20):
The Divine Right of Kings - I
The Divine Right of Kings - II
Filmer's patriarchalism
Common Law |
Mocket - God and the King
Filmer - Patriarcha
James - Speech to Parliament
Hedley - Speech to Parliament
Patriarchalism, Politics and Mass Attitudes in Stuart England,
Gordon J. Schochet |
5.
Contract, Resistance, and Parliament (2/22-2/27):
Protestant resistance theory
Catholic resistance theory |
Vindiciae contra tyrannos
John Floyd - God and the king
Manetsch - The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre |
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3/1: FIRST MIDTERM, IN CLASS
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6. The
Onset of Civil War (3/6-3/13):
Early Stuart England:
Parliamentarian and Royalist theory in the Civil Wars
(1642-6) and Interregnum (1649-60)
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Buckingham in verse
Prynne
Histrio-mastix
Cornwallis - On alehouses
Smith - On Noah's drunkenness
Spelman - Considerations
Parker - Observations
Ascham -
Discourse & Bounds
Weston -
English Constitutional Doctrines The Theory of Mixed Monarchy
under Charles I |
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Political and Religious Radicals (3/15-3/20):
Levellers and Diggers
Other religious radicals
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An Agreement of the people
Denne -
The
Levellers design
Wood - The
Levellers (falsely so called)
Levellers and sects in verse
Dell -
Building of the Church
Winstanley -
Letter to Fairfax
Coppe -
A Fiery Flying Roll
Kishlansky -
The Army and the Levellers: The Roads to Putney
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8. Republicans and Whigs (3/22-29):
Harrington, Sidney and Locke
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Harrington -
Oceana Excerpts
Sidney -
Speech on the scaffold
Wren -
Monarchy asserted
J. G. A. Pocock -
James Harrington and the Good Old Cause: A Study of the
Ideological Context of His Writings |
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TERM PAPERS DUE 29 MARCH
SPRING BREAK: 3/31-4/8 |
9.
Towards Modernity: Hobbes, Locke, Science, Religion and
Toleration (4/10-4/20)
Hobbes
Hobbes II
Religious Toleration
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Hobbes -
Excerpts
Coke -
Survey of Hobbes
Ross -
Leviathan drawn out
Objections answered
John Goodwin -
Theomachia
Jeremy Taylor -
Liberty of prohesying
Tom Sorell -
Hobbes's Persuasive Civil Science
Perez Zagorin -
Clarendon and Hobbes
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4/17: SECOND MIDTERM, IN CLASS
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10.
Popular Culture (4/24-5/1):
Providence and Prophecy
Magic and Medicine
Ghosts, fairies and omens
Astrology |
Francis Bacon, from Essay XXXV: Of Prophecies
Hilliard Fire from heaven
Miracle of Miracles
Corbet Ballad
Rudstone Prognostication
Foulweather Prognostication
Camden
Astrology in Shakespeare's Day
Wright
Astrology and Science in Seventeenth-Century England |
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11. Witchcraft (5/3-10)
Prosecution and beliefs
Dynamics and decline |
Henry Holland
A Treatise against witchcraft:
The Most wonderfull and true storie
Witches Apprehended,
Examined and Executed
Reginald Scot, Discovery of
witchcraftHolmes,
Women: Witnesses and Witches |
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