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Academic Year 2003/2004


The Making of Britain: 400-1763
HIST 211 SP

Crosslistings:
MDST 205

This course of lectures will focus on the emergence of Britain by examining a series of formative moments and crises that blended Britons into a political, religious and ethnic community, but also differentiated them from outsiders. The course is therefore as much about the cultural creation of the English and the British as it is about the political events and military crises that occurred. The course begins in the 5th century, at the moment that the Romanized Celts in England and Scotland first felt the effects of the Germanic English invaders, and will conclude in the 18th century when England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland had been united under one Protestant monarch. It is a story guided by conquest, religion and ethnicity.

MAJOR READINGS

Gildas, DE EXCIDIO BRITANNIAE
Gerald of Wales, THE JOURNEY THROUGH WALES
King James VI&I, POLITICAL WRITINGS
John Foxe, THE BOOK OF THE MARTYRS
Bede, A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND PEOPLE
Milton, A DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
John Knox, HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND
John Locke, A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION
William Shakespeare, RICHARD II-HENRY V

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three papers.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004


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