Schedule of Topics

Readings for each week are listed below; either read them online or print them out. Your term paper will need to cite at least two printed books and/ or articles (plus as many web sites as you like) in addition to these readings. Here are three books that you might find useful, both in doing your term paper and more generally; all are available on reserve in College Library: (1) Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680; (2) Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic; (3) J. P. Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots. Politics and Ideology in England 1603-1640.

Lecture Topics	Documents & readings
1. Introduction: society and ideas (9/04-06) 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 (9/11-13) 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 (9/18-20) Social structure Women in society The Family The Economy	Description Of Elizabethan England English population Cleaver & Dod - Household government Macfarlane on Stone
4. Divine Right, Patriarchalism, Common Law and Constitutionalism (9/25-7) 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 (10/2-9) Protestant resistance theory Catholic resistance theory	Vindiciae contra tyrannos John Floyd - God and the king Manetsch - The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre
10/11: FIRST MIDTERM, IN CLASS
6. The Onset of Civil War (10/16-18) Early Stuart England: Parliamentarian and Royalist theory in the Civil Wars (1642-6) and Interregnum (1649-60)	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
7. Political and Religious Radicals (10/23-5) Levellers and Diggers Other religious radicals	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
TERM PAPERS DUE 10/25
8. Republicans and Whigs (10/30-11/6) Harrington, Sidney and Locke	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

9. Towards Modernity: Hobbes, Locke, Science, Religion and Toleration (11/8-15) Hobbes Hobbes II Religious Toleration	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
11/20: SECOND MIDTERM, IN CLASS 11/21-25: THANKSGIVING RECESS
10. Popular Culture (11/27-12/6) 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

11. Witchcraft (12/11-13) 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 witchcraft Holmes, Women: Witnesses and Witches
12/16, SUNDAY; 7:45AM: FINAL; PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED

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