COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS History 601M READING SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: Protestantism, Politics, and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1550-1800 Dr. Melinda Zook Spring 2012 Phone: 494-4134 Monday, 3:40-6:30 Email: [email protected] University Hall 319 Office: University Hall 327 Office hours: Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 or by appointment Course Description This graduate reading seminar focuses around the historiographical debates over religious and political conflict in the British Isles and transatlantic world in the early modern era. Topics include: late medieval Catholicism and the impact of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations on politics, culture, and society in sixteenth-century England, Scotland, Ireland and the Americas; gender and violence in England and Ireland in the early seventeenth century; Puritanism in early Stuart England and radical sectarianism during the Civil Wars; the religious diversity in North America; the role of women in the religious controversies of the seventeenth century in England, Scotland and abroad; and the impact of empire, nationalism, and religious pluralism in eighteenth-century Britain. Required Texts Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (Yale, 2001) Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the Second Earl of Castlehaven (Oxford, 2001) Paul S. Seaver, Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985) Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (Norton, 1998) Carla Pestana, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (Penn State Press, 2009) Linda Colley, Britons: Forging a Nation, 1707-1837 (Yale, revised edition, 2009) 1 Requirements Throughout the semester, students will hand in two-page critiques of the assigned readings. On most occasions, these short essays will address the author‟s thesis, methodology, sources, and contributions to the field. In addition, students will be asked to prepare short bibliographies, present oral reviews of their readings, and participate in class discussions. Final Grades will be determined as follows: Written assignments 60% Oral presentations 20% Class participation 20% Rules of the Game Students must attend all classes, arriving on time. Late papers will be penalized. Students need to turn off their cell-phones once they enter the class room. Students may use a laptop or i-pad during class so long as they are using a word processing program. They may not access the internet. Students are encouraged to use proper email etiquette in any e-communication with me and with all their professors (e.g., an email should begin with a salutation such as “Dear Professor X;” and end with a proper closing, such as “Sincerely” or “Yours.”). I take plagiarism extremely seriously. If you use someone else‟s words or ideas without proper citation you may consider your graduate career at an end. Schedule of Readings & Discussions January 9 Introduction to the Course January 16 No Class: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 23 The Old Faith & the King’s Great Matter Doreen Rosman, The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-1600, Chapters 1 & 2 (handed out in class) And, G.W. Bernard, “The Making of Religious Policy, 1533-1546: Henry VIII & the Search for the Middle Way,” The Historical Journal 42/2 (1998): 321-49 And, Pestana, Protestant Empire, Introduction & Chapter 1 2 January 30 Reformation & Counter Reformation Patrick Collins, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (Jonathan Cape, 1967) Susan Brigden, “Youth & the English Reformation,” Past & Present 95 (1982): 37-67 Christopher Haigh, The English Reformations: Religion, Politics, & Society under the Tudors (Oxford University Press, 1993). Christopher Haigh, ed. The English Reformation Revised (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Norman Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament & the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (Royal Historical Society, 1982). Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI & the Protestant Reformation (Allen Lane, 2000). Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 (Palgrave, 2001). Peter Marshall, The Catholic Priesthood & the English Reformation (Oxford University Press,1994) Robert Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion & the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1989) David Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor (Longman, 2nd ed. 1991) Susan Brigden, London & the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 1989) Maria Dowling, “Anne Boleyn & Reform,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 36 (1985): 30-46 Maria Dowling, “The Gospel & the Court Reformation Under Henry VIII,” in Protestantism & the National Church in the Sixteenth Century England, eds., Peter Lake & Maria Dowling (Routledge,1987) Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: England under Mary Tudor (Yale University Press, 2009) Hiram Morgan, “‟Never Any Realm Worse Governed‟: Queen Elizabeth & Ireland,” Royal Historical Society 14 (2004): 295-308 Brendan Bradshaw, “Sword, Word, and Strategy in the Reformation in Ireland,” Historical Journal 21/3 (1978): 475-502 3 Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2003) Clare Kellar, Scotland, England and the Reformation, 1534-61 (Oxford University Press, 2003) Ian B. Cowan, The Scottish Reformation: Church & Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (New York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1982) February 6 The Impact of Religious Change Discuss Duffy, The Voices of Morebath February 13 British Isles, Reformation, & the New World Pestana, Protestant Empire, Chapter 2 Stephen J. Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century,” in Stephen J. Greenblatt, Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (New York: Routledge, 1990) James Horn, “The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) Alden T. Vaughan, “Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) Robert Appelbaum, “Hunger in early Virginia: Indians and English facing Off over Excess, Want, and Need,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) Michael J. Guasco, “Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in early Anglo-Atlantic World,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) Andrew Hadfield, “Irish Colonies and the Americas,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 1999), introduction, chapters 1 &2. 4 February 20 Gender, Law, and Order the Early Stuarts Discuss Herupp, A House in Gross Disorder And, William Palmer, “Gender, Violence, Rebellion in Tudor & Early Stuart Ireland,” Sixteenth-Century Journal 23 (1992): 699-712 February 27 The Hotter Sort of Protestant: The Puritan’s World Discuss Paul Seaver, Wallington’s World March 5 The Civil Wars & the Rise of Sectarianism Doreen Rosman, The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-1600, Chapter 5 (handed out in class) And, Pestana, Protestant Empire, Chapters 3-5 Ranters Muggletonians The Family of Love (or Familists) Quakers Presbyterians Independents Seekers Baptists Fifth Monarchists March 12 Spring Break March 19 Women & Religion Read Patricia Crawford, “The Challenges to Patriarchalism: How did the Revolution affect Women?” in Revolution & Restoration: England in the 1650s ed. John Morrill (Collins & Brown, 1992). Keith Thomas, “Women and the Civil War Sects,” Past & Present 13 (1958): 42-62 Claire Cross, “He-Goats before the Flocks:‟ A Note on the Part Played by Women in Founding of Some Civil War Churches,” Studies in Church History 8 (1972): 195-202 Patricia Higgins, “The Reactions of Women, with Special Reference to Women Petitioners,” in Politics, Religion, and the English Civil War, ed. Brian Manning (London: Edward Arnold, 1973), 179-222 5 H. Barbour, “Quaker Prophetesses & Mothers of Israel,” in Seeking The Light: Essays in Quaker History, eds. W. Frost & J. Moore (Pendle Hill, 1986). Anne Laurence, “A Priesthood of She-Believers: Women and Congregations in Mid- Seventeenth-Century England,” in Women in the Church, eds. W. J. Shields and Diana Woods (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990) Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) Diane Purkiss, “Reproducing the voice, consuming the body: Women Prophets of the seventeenth century,” in Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, eds. I. Grundy & S. Wiseman (University of Georgia Press,1992). Ann Hughes, “Gender and Politics in Leveller Literature,” in Political Culture and Cultural Politics in England, eds. Susan Amussen and Mark Kishlansky, (Manchester University Press, 1995), 162-88 J. K. Gardiner, “Margaret Fell Fox and Feminist Literary History: A „Mother in Israel‟ Calls to the Jews,” in The Emergence Quaker Writing, eds. T. Corns & D. Loewenstein (Frank Cass,1996) Hilary Hinds, God’s Englishwomen: