Texts
Required texts available at Atticus:
Gildas, De Excidio Brittaniae
Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Geoffrey of Monmouth, A History of the Kings of Britain
John Knox, On Rebellion
William Shakespeare, Richard II, I and II Henry IV, and Henry V
King James VI and I, Political Writings
John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
Earl of Clarendon, History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Political Works
Part I: Ethnogenesis and the Northern Sphere
25-30 January Settlement, Celts, and Romans
Bede, Ecclesiastical History, 3-26
1-13 February Age of Arthur: Saxons and Irish Invasions
Bede, Ecclesiastical History, 26-233
Gildas, De Excidio Brittaniae
15-22 February The Making of England
Bede, Ecclesiastical History, 234-298
Part II: Into the Continental Domain
27 February-8 March Anglo-Norman Hegemony
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain
27 March-29 March The Union of England and France?
William Shakespeare, Four Histories
Part III: The Quest for a Protestant Polity
3-12 April Religious Change and the Revolution in British Identities
John Knox, On Rebellion
King James VI and I, Political Writings, 1-61
17-19 April l Chosen of God: King or People?
King James VI and I, Political Writings, 62-228, 250-67
Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, tba
24-26 April The State of Great Britain
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Political Writings, tba
1-3 May The British People
John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration