Dr. Jessica Otis
jotis2@gmu.edu
Class Location & Time: Monday, 7:20-10pm, RRCHNM (Research Hall 4th Floor)
Office Hours: By appointment; just send me an email or Slack message and we’ll figure out a time/place to meet.
Technological Requirements:
A device that connects to the internet, preferably a computer that runs Mac, Windows, or Linux operating system.
If you don’t have and can’t obtain access to an appropriate device, please contact me ASAP and we’ll find a path forward for you.
Required Course Materials/Expenses:
I am working to ensure all of our course materials are available physically or online through GMU libraries by the start of the semester. Students may need to use a VPN to access certain materials if they are off-campus. Mode of access is included in square brackets after each item in the course schedule.
Students are expected to have a device that connects to the internet (laptop, mobile phone, etc.) for course communications and some in-class activities. If you don’t have and can’t obtain access to appropriate technology, please contact me ASAP and we’ll find a path forward for you.
Optional Course Materials/Expenses:
As of the time I finalized this syllabus, all course books were available online via GMU’s library. If you want to purchase any of our course books in order to read them in print, here is the course book reading list (in chronological order by class date):
- Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England 1584-1714: A Narrative History (3rd edition)
- OPTIONAL: John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction
- Christopher Dyer, Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540
- James Clark, The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
- Mark Stoyle, A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549
- Lucy Mauffat Kaufman, A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish
- Charmian Mansell, Female Servants in Early Modern England
- Susan Doran, James I: From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I
- Lloyd Bowen, Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England: Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law
- Eleanor Hubbard, Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630
- Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution
- Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
- Andrea McKenzie, Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England: The Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Paul Griffiths, Information, Institutions, and Local Government in England, 1550-1700: Turning Inside
- Jessica Marie Otis, By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England