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Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1500-1700 Professor Jason Peacey Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1500-1700 HIST0189 / HIST0590 Professor Jason Peacey Timetable (term one) Lecture: Tuesday 12-1 Classes: Monday 2-3, 3-4 Thursday 9-10, 10-11 Contact Information Room: 209, 25 Gordon Square Email address: [email protected]; [email protected] Office Hour: Jack Sargeant Thursday, 2-3 Jason Peacey Thursday 12-1 Questions for assessed coursework essays are listed below. You must choose from this list. ESSAY QUESTIONS: - What were the economic consequences of demographic growth in early-modern England? - Did early modern towns witness ‘crisis’ or ‘renaissance’? - To what extent does the term ‘county community’ remain useful to historians of early modern Britain?’ - Was there a ‘Tudor revolution’ in government, and if so, when? - What were the limits of patriarchy in early modern society? - How inclusive was the educational revolution of the early modern period? - How plausible are ‘revisionist’ arguments about religious developments before 1558? - How feasible was Mary’s attempt to restore Catholicism? - How deep were the divisions within the established church by 1600? - How stable was Elizabethan political life? - To what extent did the reign of James I witness the crisis of Parliament? - Did Puritanism threaten the stability of the early Stuart state? - Was the civil war caused by the Scots and the Irish? - How credible is it to characterise the civil wars as a baronial revolt? - To what extent was the regicide a revolutionary act? - In what sense did Restoration politics become ‘civil war by other means’? - Why did people believe in a popish plot in the late 1670s and early 1680s? - Did the Glorious revolution really have anything to do with liberty? - To what extent was imperial expansion predicated on ideas about race? - How accurately does England resemble a ‘fiscal military state’ by the end of the seventeenth century?’ Course outline Term One: 1. Introduction: historiographical background (Jason Peacey) Seminar: introduction (Jack Sargeant / Jason Peacey) 2. Economic and social change 1500-1700 (Jason Peacey) Seminar: poverty, and poor relief (Jason Peacey) 3. Rural and urban society (Jason Peacey) Seminar: debating the ‘county community’ (Jack Sargeant) 4. Gender, patriarchy and masculinity (Jack Sargeant) Seminar: female agency and public life (Jack Sargeant) 5. Literacy, education and the print revolution (Jason Peacey) Seminar: riot, disorder and rural unrest (Jack Sargeant) 6. The Tudor revolution in government (Jason Peacey) Seminar: The rise of Parliament (Jason Peacey) 7. The Early reformation in Britain (Jason Peacey) Seminar: popular religion and religious culture (Jack Sargeant) 8. The Mid-Tudor crisis: Edward VI and Mary I (Jason Peacey) Seminar: the rebellions of 1549 (Jason Peacey) 9. Religion in Elizabethan Britain (Jason Peacey) Seminar: Catholics in late Tudor and early Stuart Britain (Jason Peacey) 10. Politics and war in Elizabethan Britain (Jason Peacey) Seminar: the ‘monarchical republic’ and the succession crisis (Jack Sargeant) Term Two: 11. James I: union and crisis? (Jason Peacey) Seminar: religious polarisation (Jack Sargeant) 12. Charles I: crisis in church and state (Jason Peacey) Seminar: the ‘personal rule’ (Jack Sargeant) 13. The ‘British problem’ and the causes of the civil wars (Jason Peacey) Seminar: The reforms of the ‘Long Parliament’ (Jason Peacey) 14. The British civil wars, 1642-8 (Jason Peacey) Seminar: civil war radicalism (Jason Peacey) 15. Regicide, republic and commonwealth (Jason Peacey) Seminar: Oliver Cromwell (Jack Sargeant) 16. Charles II: the merry monarchy? (Jason Peacey) Seminar: the ‘exclusion crisis’ (Jack Sargeant) 17. James II: the Catholic king (Jason Peacey) Seminar: the ‘Glorious Revolution’ (Jack Sargeant) 18. Politics after the revolution (Jason Peacey) Seminar: religion after 1689 (Jack Sargeant) 19. The birth of empire (Jason Peacey) Seminar: race and empire (Jack Sargeant) 20. State formation in early modern Britain (Jason Peacey) Seminar: Political communication (Jack Sargeant) The Tudor and Stuart Britain and Approaching History grid Tudor and Stuart Britain topic Approaching History lecture Introduction Economic and Social Change History from Below Quantifying History Rural and Urban Society History from Below Gender, Patriarchy and Masculinity Gender and Agency History from Below Literacy, Education and the Print History from Below Revolution The History of Things + Riot, disorder and rural unrest History from Below (seminar) Tudor Revolution in Government Nations and States + The rise of Parliament (seminar) Nations and States Constitutions and Parliaments The Early Reformation The History of Ideas + Popular religion (seminar) History from Below The Mid-Tudor Crisis Nations and States + The Rebellions of 1549 (seminar) History from Below Religion in Elizabethan England The History of Ideas Politics and War in Elizabethan England Nations and States + Monarchical republic (seminar) The History of Ideas Constitutions and Parliaments James I: Union and Crisis Nations and States Parliaments and Constitutions The History of Ideas Charles I: Crisis in Church and State Nations and States The British Problem and the Civil Wars Nations and States + Long Parliament (seminar) Constitutions and Parliaments The British Civil Wars Nations and States The History of Ideas + Civil War radicalism (seminar) History from Below The History of Ideas Regicide, republic and commonwealth Nations and States Constitutions and Parliaments Charles II: the Merry Monarchy? Nations and States Constitutions and Parliaments James II: the Catholic King Nations and States The History of Ideas Constitutions and Parliaments Politics and religion after the Revolution Nations and States The History of Ideas Constitutions and Parliaments The Birth of Empire Empires + Race and Empire (seminar) Race and Resistance State formation Nations and States Constitutions and Parliaments + Political communication (seminar) History from Below General bibliography: Textbooks There is no set text for this course. The best general introductions in one volume, especially for those who have not studied this period before, are: Edwards, P., The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660 (2001) Hirst, D., Dominion. England and its Island Neighbours 1500-1707 (2012) Miller, J., Early Modern Britain, 1450-1750 (2017) Smith, A., The Emergence of a Nation State: the Commonwealth of England, 1529- 1660 (2nd ed. 1997) Bucholz, R., and Key, N., Early Modern England, 1485-1714 (second edition, 2009) Background Reading The following may be more or less useful as general works, depending on your familiarity with the period. It would be worth familiarising yourself with at least some of these books, and using them selectively, and as you think appropriate given, their content and your background knowledge. i) Periodising the early modern Starn, R., ‘Early modern muddle’, Journal of Early Modern History, 6 (2002) Withington, P., Society in Early Modern England (2010), part 1 ii) Tudor Brigden, S., New Worlds, Lost Worlds: the Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (2001) Elton, G., England Under the Tudors (3rd ed., 1991) Guy, J., Tudor England (1988) Jones, N., and Tittler, R., eds, A Companion to Tudor Britain (2004) Nicholls, M., A History of the Modern British Isles, 1529-1603 (1999) Ryrie, A., The Age of Reformation. The Tudor and Stewart Realms, 1485-1603 (2009) Wall, A., Power and Protest in England 1525-1640 (2000) Williams, P, The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (1995) Williams, P., The Tudor Regime (1981) ii) Stuart Coward, B., ed., A Companion to Stuart Britain (2002) Coward, B., The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714 (3rd ed. 2003) Hirst, D., England in Conflict, 1603-1660 (1999) Kishlansky, M., A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 (1996) Prest, W., Albion Ascendent: English History 1660-1815 (1998) Scott, J., England’s Troubles (2000) Smith, D., A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1717 (1998) Spurr, The Post-Reformation, 1603-1714 (2006) General Reading These works cover broad periods and themes, and will be useful throughout the course. Items marked with ‘*’ should be engaged with as a matter of priority in order to develop a broad picture of key developments during these two centuries. i) Historiographical debates Cannadine, D., ‘British history: past, present and future?’, P&P, 116 (1987) Clark, J., Revolution and Rebellion (1986) Haigh, C., ‘The recent historiography on the English reformation’, HJ, 25 (1982) *Haigh, C., English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors (1993), chs. 6-9 Hexter, J., Reappraisals in History (1961), esp. chapters 4-6 Hill, C., The English Revolution (3rd ed. 1955) *Hughes, A., The Causes of the English Civil War (2nd ed. 1998) *Hutton, R., Debates in Stuart History (2004) Kaye, H., The British Marxist Historians (1984) *Marshall, P., Reformation England 1485-1642 (2003), chs. 1-2 *Morrill, J., The Nature of the English Revolution (1993) *O’Day, R., The Debate on the English Reformation (1986) *Richardson, R., The Debate on the English Revolution Revisited (3rd ed. 1998) Russell, C., Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 (1990) Tyacke, N., Aspects of English Protestantism, c.1530-1700 (2001), introduction ii) State, Economy and Society *Braddick, M, State Formation in Early Modern England c.1550-1700 (2000) *Clay, C., Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700 (2 vols., 1984) *Coleman, D., The Economy of England, 1450-1750 (1977) Coward, B, Social Change and Continuity: England 1550-1750 (2nd ed. 1997)
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