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HIST211
The Making of Britain: 450-1688
HIST211 SP
Crosslistings: MDST205
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 40 28 12
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 fifth 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 seventeenth 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
Bede, A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND PEOPLE
C. Russell, THE FALL OF THE BRITISH MONARCHIES
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two papers; two exams.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE:
Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Shaw, G
- Times: M.W.... 2:40PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 2, Fr: 2
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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