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A new work published, John Spurr, ed., Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683 (Ashgate, 2011) returns a long overdue spotlight onto the great leader among the CABAL, the country party, and the Whigs.  (I say long overdue, but we cover his political career at least extensively in ch. 9 of Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd

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 From a series of 1923 Cigarette Cards entitled Celebrities and their Autographs.  Oliver Cromwell (d. 1658) and James, Duke of Monmouth (d. 1685). I think the autographs might look more convincing than the portraits

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A note for a new semester: "It is not the want of our Abilities, that makes us use our Notes, but it 's a Regard unto our Work, and the good of our Hearers.  I use Notes as much as any Man, when I am lazy, or busie, and have not leisure to prepare." Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)

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Archbishop Edmund Grindal (see 4.13-4.14 on prophesyings) Undergraduate group “e” discussion leaders have been asked to provide 1-2 sentences for each of 3 documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (documents 4.10–4.19) “Elizabethan Worlds," as to what seems useful or interesting about the document, in a comment below (beginning with the one they'd most like to

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A True Description of the Naval Expedition of Francis Drake (detail, rounding Cape Horn and into the "South Sea") Undergraduate group “d” discussion leaders have been asked to provide 1-2 sentences for each of 3 documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (documents 4.1–4.9) “Elizabethan Worlds," as to what seems useful or interesting about the document, in a comment

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Undergraduate group “c” discussion leaders have been asked to provide 1-2 sentences for each of 3 documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 “Religious Reformations” [docs. 3.12-3.18], as to what seems useful or interesting about the document, in a comment below (beginning with the one they'd most like to examine/explain/contextualize).  [For students: by Sept. 16. Fri.,

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A review of a new digital resource - Early Modern London Theatres, ed. by John McGavin Toronto, Records of Early English Drama, 2011 - in Reviews in History (David Kathman, review of Early Modern London Theatres, review no. 1119), drew me to the online source and database itself.  This appears to be the first stage (as it were) of the database, or Version 1 (February 2011): "Records pertaining to

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J. Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1563), detail Undergraduate group “b” discussion leaders have been asked to provide 1-2 sentences for each of 3 documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 “Religious Reformations” [docs. 3.1-3.11], as to what seems useful or interesting about the document, in a comment below (beginning with the one they'd most like to examine/explain/

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Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies (1550). Undergraduate group “a” discussion leaders have been asked to provide 1-2 sentences for each of 3 documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2 “Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge,” as to what seems useful or interesting about the document, in a comment below (beginning with the one

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Samuel Wales, Under the Oak of Reformation at his Camp on Mousehold Heath, Norwich Robert Kett and various rebels "camped at Mousehold Heath outside the regional capital of Norfolk from 10 July until final defeat by a royal army on 27 August" 1549.  That date, 27 August, rather than the beginning of the insurrection or the execution of Kett (7 Dec.), became "an annual day for the ringing of

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University of Nottingham Library, has a great visual representation of William of Orange's Itinerary (specifically a "map of southern England showing the routes followed by William's headquarters, four of the main Dutch commanders, and some English detachments.")  Their set of online documents, timelines, and other sources on the invasion are also worth noting.  (Thanks, and a tip of the hat to

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London booksellers (n.d.) In the past, I have attempted to describe blogs related to early modern England (and Wales, and Scotland, and Ireland) here, here, and here.  I will continue to draw attention to the new and noteworthy (and Early Modern Commons has an extensive EMC Blogroll.  But I have also begun a bloglist on the lower-left of this blog with several of the more interesting of the

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Amended list (on the left-hand side of this blog) of The Courses (using either Early Modern England and/or Sources and Debates) based on currently active URLs (based solely on a quick, basic search): Say good-bye (for now) to: Britain in the Stuart Age, 1603-1688 (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Crown and Peoples: Early Modern Britain (Anglia Ruskin, pre-course reading) England Under the Tudors,

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Worlds collide.  For following changes in a region stretching roughly from Morocco to Iran (which I follow myself at Small Ax), my current fave blog is iRevolution, which shows how innovation and technology such as Crisis Mapping or Crowdsourcing can be used both to understand the changes and to impel the changes themselves.  It has struck me how some of these techniques might be used by

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Byrsa Londinensis, vulgo The Royall Exchange of London (1644), detail The first is an extensive list of blogs relating to early modern England (including this one), and this and the others below should be added to our Virtual St. Paul's Churchyard, and Virtual Grub Street as relevant blogs: Early Modern Commons (extensive blogroll, with Aggregator) Hans Eworth & The London

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London Metropolitan Archives' FLickr photostream has some interesting images (mostly 19th and 20th cent.). Dirck Stoop's "The Manner how her Maties. D. Catherine imbarketh from Lisbon for England," (which they title, The Marriage of Catherine of Braganza to King Charles II, 1662) has the English Fleet flying the Union Jack, which must be one of the earliest portrayals of said flag.  The OED, has

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"Painted Life," Mary Ward and Companions An interesting database is now available - Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800.  It is interests me, not only because it is fun to say the word "prosopographical," but because one can locate Catholic county communities.  Thus, selecting region Monmouthshire and searching for surname with wildcards (A*, B

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In honor of my joining Facebook to further some committee work (and noting Goldman Sachs investment in same, as well as their role "in contributing to the worst US economic crisis since the 1930s"), I offer the following doggerel made by an anonymous critic of Sir Robert Vyner (presumably in the 1670s) Cursed be the banker and hanged the covetous banker That like a fatal rust or cancer That

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The Folger Shakespeare Library ran a vibrant exhibition, "Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper," curated by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey with Elizabeth Walsh, September 25, 2008-January 31, 2009. The exhibition is still online and is a sort of catalog book of the early newspaper from 1620s to early 18th century. Our Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-

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Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed. is now available as a CourseSmart eTextbook.

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Perhaps because of the publication Brian Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (Yale University Press, 2005); Markman Ellis, The Coffee House: A Cultural History (Phoenix, 2005), etc., but more probably because of the expansion of blogs (and the decline of newspapers) had everyone scrambling back to an earlier age and technology of communication shift (from

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Six month's ago, we noted a Virtual Grub Street? of blogs devoted to aspects of early modern England.  Perhaps it is time to add a few more: Early Modern History Blog (perhaps we are all a bit samey with the naming; this one is Tudor-focused) Georgian London (a book in progress, 18th-century material culture) In Pursuit of History (formerly The Gentleman Administrator; includes early modern

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Received notice of an exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery. London’s Water: 400 Years of the New River, which, they note, "a display charting the history of the river and the New River Company’s role in supplying water to the capital." The work to the right, new to me, is an anonymous work titled "A Prospect of the City from the North, c.1730."  (The link to the City of London's Collage

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People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. ("Where good ideas come from: Steven Johnson"; TEDGlobal, July 2010, Oxford, 17:46) This podcast (blog talk?) begins in early modern

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Charles de Gaulle once said (about Jean-Paul Sartre and his firebrand politics), "We do not imprison our Voltaires."  He appeared to have forgotten that Voltaire was indeed imprisoned for a satire on the French government.  But "we" in the past were always more tolerant and more independent-minded in our own memories than the facts warrant.  Perhaps that is why journalist Christopher Caldwell

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Jeremy Black gave a paper with the title above (I added "discuss") at The Maritime Lectures series at Greenwich on A Declaration of Indulgence: assessing the Stuart restoration and its legacy, earlier this year. Surely that can only be the case if one discounts William and Mary and Anne?  A bit Jacobite not to consider them Stuarts, yes?  (By the way, the program for the conference has this nice

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Another day, another blog: Early Modern Online Bibliography (EEBO, ECCO, and Burney Collection Online) should be added to our list Virtual Grub Street? The Bibliography of Online Document Archives at the end of the 2nd ed. of Sources and Debates lists EEBO and ECCO as important source collections, even though we know that many schools and universities cannot afford to subscribe to these

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It is with some surprise that I discover in the latest email newsletter from UK music magazine Word a link to the new London Lives 1690-1820: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis. According to the Project Staff: London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on

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Perhaps my headline is a bit of a misnomer for a link to the 1641 Depositions Project regarding the Irish Rising of October 1641.  But, when the English during the Exclusion Crisis c. 1680 worried that their divisions from the first years of the Long Parliament might be erupting again, they did have some fear about Catholic or Irish Plots.  As Sir George Hungerford noted in the Commons debate 15

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An expanding array of blogs cover the early modern England, Britain, and the World. Perhaps because the blogosphere emulates the cheap and ready world of Stuart London printing presses (the main title of the accompanying pamphlet title-page from the anarchic year of 1659, when censorship evaporated, is my personal favorite representing the early modern internet), many of these blogs focus on

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Wenceslaus (Wenzel) Hollar's 1656 engraving of William Dugdale (1605-1686) suggests the tools of the trade in early modern England were a bit simpler than today. Still, Dugdale might be pleased to learn that "Historian" was listed as one of The Ten Best Jobs in America 2009.

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To the bibliography of online works in the 2nd ed. of Sources and Debates should be added: The Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640, whose records have been edited at the University of Birmingham by Dr Richard Cust and Dr Andrew Hopper over the period 2003-6.(This work would be particularly relevant for students working on the early Stuart period (Early Modern England, ch. 7; Sources

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Scotland and Ireland are always part of the story of early modern England as our text, Early Modern England, repeatedly shows. For the late-Stuart period, there are a couple of works which we might now add to our bibliography:Smyth, Jim. The Making of the United Kingdom, 1660-1800: State, Religion and Identity in Britain and Ireland (Longman, 2001).Connolly, S. J. Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-

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Two works published since the 2nd ed. of Early Modern England and Sources and Debates should be added to the Select Bibliography of our text.The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England, by Keith Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2009) to the Social and Cultural section of both our Tudor and Stuart sections.Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550–1800, by Miles Ogborn (

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Readers of Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed., by Robert Bucholz and Newton Key might be interested in extending the story down to 1837 or even to the present. Our publishers, Wiley-Blackwell, now offer two related texts for the later periods:A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present, by Ellis Wasson (pub. August 2009)Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its

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Early Modern British History (Nevada, Las Vegas)History of England, 1485-1689 (Santa Cruz)

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British Isles in Revolution, 1640-1690 (Harlaxton)Cultural Stress in Britain: From Reformation to Revolution (Salisbury)Early Modern England (Calgary)England in the Age of Civil War, Reformation & Revolutions, 1399-1688 (Gustavus Adolphus)England - Tudors and Stuarts (Pacific Lutheran)England Under the Tudors, 1485-1603 (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)English Culture - the Formation of Modern England

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Peter Marshall's new article, ‘(Re)defining the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies 48, 3 (2009): 564-86, is a very useful summary of recent views of the Reformation (from above/below, quick/halting, etc.), and even-handed, even though Marshall himself has staked a position in these debates. This was published too late, of course, to be included in the 2nd ed. of Sources and Debates

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Please post by Sat., Oct. 3 or before as a comment which 3 documents about which you would most want to lead discussion for week 7. Oct. 8. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4. Add one sentence for each document about why you like that document or think it would work well in class. (I will email you which one document you will be working on once I have your submissions.) Sign your

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Please post by Sat., Sept. 19 or before as a comment which 3 documents about which you would most want to lead discussion for week 4. Sept. 17. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (post-1547). Add one sentence for each document about why you like that document or think it would work well in class. (I will email you which one document you will be working on once I have your submissions.)

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To check one's knowledge of the narrative of the 1520s and 1530s (and the relevant glossary words), the linked Quiz is based on Bucholz and Key, Early Modern England, ch. 2.

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Please post by Sat., Sept. 12 or before as a comment which 3 documents about which you would most want to lead discussion for week 4. Sept. 17. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 3 (pre-1547). Add one sentence for each document about why you like that document or think it would work well in class. (I will email you which one document you will be working on once I have your submissions.)

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Please post by Sept. 7 or before as a comment which 3 documents about which you would most want to lead discussion for week 3. Sept. 10. Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 2. Add one sentence for each document about why you like that document or think it would work well in class. (I will email you which one document you will be working on once I have your submissions.) Sign your comment

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Is Scots readily understandable by and English person and vice versa in the 17th century or not? I assume M. Pittock overstates the case. But constructing a narrative such as our textbook is a difficult architecture on shifting sands.Pittock, Murray G. H. Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, p. 45: “It would

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Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), 20:England and Scotland had been joined together by history and geography since the fall of the Roman Empire.... Both spoke the same language, since the Scottish royal court had adopted English (or a dialect

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Additional information for a map quiz, based largely on the Elizabethan and Earl Stuart chapters of Early Modern England: London, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, Norwich, Edinburgh (Holyrood Palace), Paris, Antwerp, Douai, Welsh Marches, Tilbury, Flushing (now Vlissingen), Ulster, Munster, The Pale, Connaught, Dublin, Westminster (Whitehall), Greenwich, Berwick. London is on the River Thames,

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Many of the articles and chapters listed at the end of each chapter in Sources and Debates in English History are readily available online if your library subscribes to major journals and/or JStor. If you have trouble finding works by historians mentioned in your library, you might try Google books.You probably won't find a complete work by a recent historian in Google books (only a "Limited

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I have had queries on how to use the documents. Well, let's say that you have one historian (Bernard, probably) who says that it was really monarchs (he would say Henry VIII) that had all the cards and all the power and there was no bunch of bureaucrats doing the modernization (and, thus, there was not much modernization). Whereas another (Elton?) says that it was Cromwell (and all the

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If focusing on the religious settlement after 1558, there are a number of likely sources:Elizabeth and Archbishop Grindal on prophesyings, 4.11 and 4.12 (1st ed.) relate strongly toField and Wilcox, Admonition, and their criticism of the established church (4.10, 1st ed.). Is this the Puritan criticism?4.8 and 4.9 are the established church taking on another side to the criticism of the

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If interested in the Elizabethan religious settlement as a focus,Bernard, George W. 'The Church of England, c.1529-c.1642'. History, 75:244 (1990), 183-206 is available online at booth library -- go to periodicals list for history (printed in UK, in case there is another by that name).Haigh, Christopher. Elizabeth I (Profiles in Power). 2nd edn. London: Longman, 1998. A less positive spin, to put

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In response to a query about documents that support Dickens’s claim that the reformation came from the bottom up besides the Confession of John Pykas, I suggest3.3 (1st ed.) The Opening of the Reformation Parliament (November 3–December 17, 1529) which has the MPs from the House of Commons quite willing to go along with Henry on this. Most of their reasons are more materialistic than Pykas,

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Jeremy Black, "Making a world safe for Whigs - Revisiting the Glorious Revolution: Patrick Dillon, Tim Harris and Edward Vallance on the Glorious Revolution," is a review essay on Patrick Dillon The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World (2006)Tim Harris Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 (2006)Edward Vallance The Glorious Revolution: 1688 -

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Regarding Dickens, The best works (besides his general intro. textbook) are in P. Marshall, ed., The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500. The are many recent articles and chapters continuing the Reformation historiography debate in Sources and Debates, ch. 3 on the following questions:Was the Reformation popular, shaped by grass-roots movements from below?Was it unpopular and forced by a few

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Student discussion leaders are asked to select documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 5 (society ca. 1600):, listing 3 documents from chapter 5, 1st ed. (one from the new chapter from the 2nd edition) with 1-2 sentences on each explaining what the class should get out of those documents. Then, during the next class I announce to the rest of class which documents they should

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Student discussion leaders are asked to select documents from Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, ch. 4 (Elizabethan Worlds):, listing 3 documents from chapter 5, 1st ed. (one from the new chapter from the 2nd edition) with 1-2 sentences on each explaining what the class should get out of those documents. Then, during the next class I announce to the rest of class which documents they should

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By Mon. morning, 22 Sept., post a list of 3 documents from chapter 3 (one should be from the 2nd half of the chapter in the new edition which I will hand out to you on Tuesday) with 1-2 sentences on each explaining what the class should get out of those documents.Then, during class on Tues., 23 Sept., I will announce to the rest of class which documents they should read for Thursday, 25 Sept. (

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The following review article came to our notice too late to place it in the Historians' Debates section of Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, 2nd ed., ch. 3. But it opens with a useful brief discussion of changing keywords in Reformation historiography. R. H. Fritze, "The English Reformation: Obedience, Destruction and Cultural Adaptation," JEcclH 56, 1 (2005).

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His 3100, Fall 2008, Discussion Group Assignments: Post a ranked list of 3 documents from ch. 3, Sources and Debates with 1-2 sentences on each explaining what the class should get out of those documents by September 15 (by noon) I will then draw up a list of 5 documents which the whole class should read and the group will then be responsible for presenting the documents Sept. 18 to the class,

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His 3100, Fall 2008, Discussion Group Assignments: Post a ranked list of 3 documents from ch. 2, Sources and Debates with 1-2 sentences on each explaining what the class should get out of those documents by September 9 (by noon) I will then draw up a list of 5 documents which the whole class should read and the group will then be responsible for presenting the documents Sept. 11 to the class,

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Summary of Constitutional Reform since 1997Compare with discussion in Early Modern England, introduction (1st and 2nd eds.)

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The 2nd edition of Early Modern England will have a detail from the following painting on the cover:Charles Stoop, Charles II's Cavalcade through the City of London (1661)?A contemporary engraving of the entry for his coronation is

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Compare this with discussion on Early Modern England, ch. 8 to show the increase in tracts in the 1640s and 1650s. From David Cressy, "Revolutionary England 1640-1642," P & P 181 (2003): 61.Some Statistics on the Number of Surviving Printed Titles for Great Britain and Dependencies from the Beginnings of Print in England to the year 1800, by Alain Veylit is based on the raw numbers from ESTC.

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contemporary sketch map of 1567 murder (from 1576?)

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This placard denounced Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell soon after the Darnley murder, and certainly suggests a popular reaction to the murder in Scotland if not a fully developed public sphere there in the mid-sixteenth century.

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Compare the portrait of James VI and I in Early Modern England (2nd. ed., p. 218) with this portrait, from 1595, when only James VI, by Adrian Vanson as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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In updating the "Historians' Debates" sections of the social and cultural history chapters for the 2nd ed. of Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, we discovered a wealth of new studies. We list those at the end of chs. 1, 5, and 9. There appear, however, to be two general critiques of the directions taken by current soc/cult history.First, it is increasingly common to reject any

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This painting on wood in a church is of Elizabeth at Tilbury. Underneath the painting is printed a version of the following speech that another person recorded in a sermon of 1612:Come on now my companions at armes, and fellow Souldiers, in the field, now for the Lord, for your Queene, and for the kingdome[.] [Flor what are these proud Philistines, that they should revile the Hoast of the

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And then there is the matter of the favorites themselves. Though James’s marriage to Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) produced several children, his sexuality has long been a matter of debate. It soon became clear to observers court that he preferred the company of handsome young men. His correspondence with these favorites reveals a depth of playful affection that is certainly homo-erotic, if not

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P. Collinson, Short Oxford History of The British Isles: The Sixteenth Century (Oxford, 2002), xiv, gives a good readings of this as a protrait of Thomas Cromwell. Unfortunately, I discovered the identical Iportrait accompanying the ODNB article of George Neville, third Baron Bergavenny (c.1469-1535). I asked Dr Philip Carter, Publication Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and he

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1. How many people died in Mountjoy's pacification 1602-03?From Mountjoy's ODNBWhen word came of Essex's failed rebellion in early 1601 Mountjoy panicked and prepared a ship in which he planned to escape from Ireland to France. But despite his complicity in Essex's early plans to ensure James's accession he had suitably distanced himself from Essex prior to the rebellion and his role in the

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Bibliographies covering the 16th-century Reformations (Dickens, Scarisbrick, Haigh, Duffy, MacCullough, etc.)J.P. Sommerville, Reformations and the State 1500-1689History of the British Isles IV, 1500–1700 (University of Oxford History Faculty 2006)Government, Politics and Society in England, 1547–58 (University of Oxford Modern History Faculty, 2005)An introduction to the historiography of the

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Roger Martyn notes that "on the Monday one way, on the Tuesday another way, on the Wednesday another way, praying for rain or fair weather as the time required; having a drinking and a dinner there upon Monday, being fast day; and Tuesday being a fish day [when Catholics were required to abstain from meat] they had a breakfast with butter and cheese, etc., at the parsonage, and a drinking at Mr.

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Tatiana C. String, “Henry VIII's Illuminated 'Great Bible',” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 59 (1996): 315-324, notes that Holbein's woodcut for the Coverdale Bible (1535) was superseded by that (artist unknown but probably Lucas Horenbout--which I think the world does not need to know) for the Great Bible (1540). Cool article: the 1541 ed. has a big circle on the right where

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highest praise for Paul A. Fideler, Social Welfare in Pre-Industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). For introduction and ch. 6 of text (already using for ch. 1 & 5 of sourcebook). Clarity, hardwork, common sense.

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The following on the role of Sir Walter Raleigh (and Hatton too, for that matter--he would have been better in the movie, but no one has heard of him) in Elizabeth's court from von Wedel's Journey, 1584-5 is not included in either edition of our sourcebook, but is quite valuable:The queen is served at dinner by a very young gentleman in black, who carves; the drink is handed to her by one in

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Bush's reading of 1636-7 seems most convincing: M. L. Bush, “The Tudor polity and the pilgrimage of grace,” Historical Research 80, 207 (2007): 47-72.47n) Religious, not constitutional, grievances have been uppermost in the historiography since G. R. Elton, “Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace,” in After the Reformation: essays in honor of J.H. Hexter, ed. B.C. Malament (Manchester, 1980), 25-

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Steven Gunn, “Henry VII in Context: Problems and Possibilities,” History 92, 307 (2007): 301-17 is a very good article by one of the most convincing historians of the reign (who also notes that sources change during his reign, gentry letters and chronicles of Yorkist era die out, but the state bureaucratic corpus of his son's reign do not survive--or were they simply not there?). 302) “As T. B.

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Even though there is a Richard III Society, and Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time is a great mystery defending Richard III, it is hard to list what is good about richard iii. He certainly received a raw deal from the Tudor historians and playrights, but he seems decidedly unpleasant--vindictive against his own brother and family; seeing enemies everywhere. Act settling the crown on Richard III

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does that last line from 12 July suggest Cromwell not particularly Protestant? Or just Machiavellian?12 July 1529, Thomas Cromwell to Cardinal Wolsey. “The king hath received his letters, and is very sorry that he is in such necessity, yet that, for relief, his majesty hath deferred it till he speak with his council. The duke of Norfolk promiseth you his best aid, but he willeth you for the

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I can't use the depositions in the sourcebook (although they are great). But our note has Arthur saying "laid in Spain" bit to Henry. Depositions have him saying it to everyone but Henry (they depositions are, of course, suspect, see Campeggio). Erasmus seems pretty convinced Henry wrote Assertio Septem Sacramentorum which goes with what we wrote.28 October 1528, Campeggio to Salviati. “The

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again, these are all works I read for the sourcebook, but might have some relevance to the text:Barbara J. Harris, “Women and politics in early Tudor England,” Historical Journal 33, 2 (1990): 259-81.(for ch. 1 of text?) “Political historians working on the early Tudor period have traditionally concentrated on institutions - monarchy, council, parliament, courts, and administrative bodies - that

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Keith Dockray, “Edward IV: Playboy or Politician?,” The Ricardian 10 (1995): 306-25. This historiographical review notes that ever since the late-fifteenth century there have been the detractors of Edward, who argued he was “an indolent and pleasure-loving prince,” as well as those who admired “his devotion to the task of restoring the royal finances” (306). Polydore Vergil had his

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Greg Walker, “Henry VIII and the invention of the royal court,” History Today 47, 2 (1997): 13-20. Since Elton, “the development of the court as an institution” (13) has been basic to Tudor historiography, a point only furthered by Elton’s otherwise critic, David Starkey. The basic ideas is the the “‘overmighty’ barons of the fifteenth century were transformed in the sixteenth into court

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A.J. Pollard, “New monarchy renovated?: England, 1461-1509,” Medieval History 2,1 (1992): 78-82. Old hisotriography was that the New Monarchy was “tyrannical but legal” and “crushed baronial power and feudal privilege.” More recent historians have argued that the “new” monarchs actually renovated and refounded old practices. But, in contrast to those who emphasized institutional and

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Two groups, one old, one new mounted a coherent criticism of the Church, its leaders, its personnel, and even its doctrine at the beginning of the early modern period. The old group was known as the Lollards, a word of uncertain derivation. Lollardy beliefs are associated with John Wycliff (c. 1329-84), an Oxford-based theologian of the fourteenth century. He and his followers, dismayed at

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Cranston's bio of Locke notes 150-1) that by 1673, Shaftesbury had discovered from Clifford the details of the secret Treaty of Dover. This would explain a lot of his court to country move; he must have felt so used. Delenda est Cartago indeed

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I wonder if we might make more of William's role in Blenheim (yes, I know he is dead). Thatis, Louis's army of the 1700s was not the same as his of the 1680s. William's rather dogged,defensive measures had worn down the cream of the French army; by the 1700s height and other qualifications had been waived just to get enough men to man the regiments. Not to mention horses: one reason that

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Cranston's bio of Locke notes 150-1) that by 1673, Shaftesbury had discovered from Clifford the details of the secret Treaty of Dover.This would explain a lot of his court to country move; he must have felt so used. Delenda est Cartago indeed.

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related to your story about whitehall and versailles, here is one that is verifiable (of course locke could be talking out of his hat) that locke wrote in 1672 visiting Paris:. I saw vast and magnificent buildings as big almost as others' dominions, preparing only for one man, and yet there be a great many other two-legged creatures, but 'tis not the way of [France] much to consider them....

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I have found the following useful. Laski, Bucer, etc., are perhaps not going to make it into our work, but Martyr and Cranmer should be emphasized and Luther and Calvin deemphasized. (Stuff not in quotes is in my words.)MacCulloch, Diarmaid. 'Putting the English Reformation on the Map (The Prothero Lecture)'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 15 (2005), 75-95“Henry was a king

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“A prototype of the coffeehouse as public sphere was the Turk's Head in London, where the arch-republican James Harrington founded the Rota Club in 1659. The club, whose other members included John Milton, took its name from Harrington's proposal in his utopian Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) to establish term limits for Members of Parliament. The club met around an oval table and debated political

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The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (Paperback)by Brendan McConville (Author) The University of North Carolina Press (August 1, 2007) In a provocative reinterpretation of the first century of American history, McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense

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Russell, Conrad Sebastian Robert, 5th earl Russell, 1937-2004. 'James VI and I and rule over two kingdoms : an English view'. Historical Research, 76:192 (2003), 151-63.160) "In October 1604..., James did what he had been threatening to do, and issued a proclamation changing his style to 'King of Great Britain' by his own personal authority."Yet this attempt (161) "opened up some very big

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How much did Lollardy influence Scotland? The Lollards in Pre-Reformation Scotland," by W. Stanford Reid in Church History, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Dec., 1942), pp. 269-283, states that, although most say they didn't, Knox himself got started in a campaign against same and there are scattered references in the literature (using Google). If, however, Lollardy was decidedly less an influence north of

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Mark Kishlansky recently writes "Lately, the king’s overthrow has been interpreted as a moment in the history of freedom: it was a stand against tyranny by defenders of the liberties of a freeborn people." Adding a note: "The current textbook line from which there are few dissenters." Kishlansky, Mark A. “Charles I: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” Past & Present 189 (2005): 41-80. I wonder if

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Reviewers have recently argued "we should expect women's experiences to be integrated into most articles." Useful in this regard is the work of Barbara Harris:"Women and Politics in Early Tudor England," Historical Journal 33 (June 1990): 259.English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Career (Oxford University Press, 2003).

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Bill Gibson on John Spurr on James II:Spurr is more generous to James II than most historians, claiming that "in all likelihood James had no desire to force the English into Catholicism" (p. 173).[4] If not, he disguised it well, and looked for a model to a king (Louis XIV) who most certainly did.

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In chapter 8, 1st ed., we noted that "the army spread not only disease...." That might be amended by noting Thomas Edwards' Gangraena (third part, 1646) where the Presbyterian polemicist claims that "Our Armies are the Nurseries of all errours and all our evills." That is that this was the fear of one specific group. (from Paul Seaver's review of Ann Hughes, Gangraena and the Struggle for the

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