Sommerville, Fall, 2002
Office: 218 Keene-Flint, hours M 10:30-12, 1:30-2:30, WF 10:30-11:30, and by appt.
jsommerv@history.ufl.edu

*** Since this is an undergraduate seminar, please drop this course if you cannot attend REGULARLY, do the course reading and be prepared for class discussions every day. There will not be a way to cut corners and still get a decent grade. ***

Required books (you will need to buy them all, at Goerings at Bageland, 1717 NW 1 Ave.):

L. B. Smith, This Realm of England
G. R. Elton, Tudor Constitution (second edition)
E. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World-Picture
R. Cust and A. Hughes, The English Civil War

You also will need the course-pack, which includes the whole of L. Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy and some other things.  This is available at TIS Bookstore, formerly UBS (next to Leonardo's).

You will also choose a biography (subject to the instructor's approval) of somebody from our period (1530-1660) for the purpose of writing a 5-page paper. You will get written directions about that paper later.  YOU MUST GET INSTRUCTOR'S APPROVAL FOR THE BIOGRAPHY YOU CHOOSE.

Grading:

20% on a first mid-term exam on September 23. We will discuss how to prepare for this exam a week beforehand.
20% on a second mid-term exam on October 21.
30% on class participation.
10% on the paper mentioned above, due December 11.
20% on a final exam, on Wednesday, December 18, 12:30 in our classroom.

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Exams can only be made up BEFORE the regularly scheduled time.
There are no exceptions to this rule

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Class schedule:

Aug. 26 Introduction to the sources of Tudor history
        28 English society (Chapter 4 in Smith, and come to class with your questions about that chapter)
        30 The international situation (Chapter 6 in Smith, first half)
Sept. 2 vacation
         4 The divorce (the rest of Chapter 6)
          6 The Monarchy (Read Elton, 1-20, all of the commentary (in small print) and documents #2, 4, 8, 11)
         9 The Reformation (Chap 7 in Smith)
        11 Lawmaking (Elton, 20-87, all the commentary, and documents 12, 16, 19, 25, 30, 32, 40)
        13 video
        16 Revolution by statute (Elton, commentary 327-383, and docs. 170, 174-177, 180, 183)
        18 Edward and Mary (Chap 8 in Smith)
        20 The Council (Elton, commentary 88-105, and docs 44, 48- 49, 61. Proclamation in c-pack)
        23 First hour exam
        25 Elizabeth (Chap 9 in Smith)
        27 The birth of ideological politics 
        30 The Elizabethan Mind: Moral Order (Tillyard, 3-52)
Oct. 2  Elizabethan society
       4  The Elizabethan Mind: Natural Order (Tillyard, 52-109)
       7  Humanists and social policy
       9  The Courts (Elton, commentary 148-221, and docs. 87, 49, 89)
      11 Exploration
      14 War (Chap 10 in Smith)
      16 Patronage and Culture
      18 Intellectual Revolution
      21 Second hour exam
      23 Puritan counter-culture
      25 High Court of Parliament (Elton, commentary 233-254, and docs. 105, 109-110, 112-113, 119-121)
      28 James I (Chap 11 in Smith)
      30 Elizabeth and her Parliaments (Elton, commentary 260-312, and docs. 126-128, 138, 141, 156, 161, 163, 167-168)
Nov. 1 Charles I (Chap 12 in Smith)
       4 Crisis of the aristocracy: status (Stone, 1-61)
       6 Crisis of the aristocracy: wealth and power (Stone, 62-134)
       8 vacation
      11 vacation
      13 Response to crisis (Stone, 135-143, 160, 178-191)
      15 How the aristocracy lived (Stone, 249-302)
      18 Civil War (Cust and Hughes, 32-56, and Chap 13 in Smith)
      20 continued (Cust, 83-129)
      22 continued (Cust, 62-81, 159-176) 
      25 continued (Cust, 212-255)
      27 video
      29 vacation
Dec. 2 Civil War (Cust, 287-333)

Dec. 18 (Wed.) - 12:30, final exam, in our classroom