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

 

 

Reading Assignments

 

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

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