Each week is referenced by the Monday that we meet. E.g. for the week labeled “February 2,” book reviews are due Thurs, January 29th at 11:59pm; book review comments can begin as soon as the first posts are made and continue until Sun, February 1st at 11:59; and our class session is scheduled Mon, February 2nd from 7:20-10pm.
Books labeled as being “online” can be accessed through https://library.gmu.edu if the hyperlink fails. All articles are also available through the university library.
Weekly Schedule
January 26
Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England 1584-1714: A Narrative History [online in 2nd ed.; 3rd ed. preferred] including the Medieval Prologue
(OPTIONAL) John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction [online]
February 2
Christopher Dyer, Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540 [online]
EITHER Jordan Claridge and Spike Gibbs, “Waifs and Strays: Property Rights in Late Medieval England,” Journal of British Studies 61, no. 1 (2022): 50-82. OR Christian D. Liddy, “The Making of Towns, the Making of Polities: Towns and Lords in Late Medieval England,” Past & Present 264 (Aug. 2024): 3-47.
February 9
James Clark, The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History [online]
watch at least the first episode of the Tudor Monastery Farm video series [YouTube]
- there are 8 episodes + a bonus Christmas special
February 16
Mark Stoyle, A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549 [online]
EITHER explore British History Online – https://www.british-history.ac.uk OR explore Early English Books Online via https://www.proquest.com/
February 23
Lucy Mauffat Kaufman, A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish [online]
explore Virtual St. Paul’s Cross – https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu
explore Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral – https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu
March 2
Charmian Mansell, Female Servants in Early Modern England [online]
K.J. Kesselring, “Law, Status, and the Lash: Judicial Whipping in Early Modern England,” Journal of British Studies 60, no. 3 (2021): 511-533.
March 16
Susan Doran, James I: From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I [online]
Michael Corrie Questier, “The Reputation of James VI and I Revisited,” Journal of British Studies 61, no. 4 (2022): 949-969.
(OPTIONAL) watch one or more episodes from the Tales from the Green Valley series [YouTube]
March 23
Lloyd Bowen, Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England: Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law [online]
explore Virtual St. Stephen’s Chapel (aka the House of Commons) – https://www.virtualststephens.org.uk
March 30
Eleanor Hubbard, Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630 [online]
Joseph Wagner, “The Scottish East India Company of 1617: Patronage, Commercial Rivalry, and the Union of the Crowns,” Journal of British Studies 59, no. 3 (2020): 582-607.
(OPTIONAL) explore the Mary Rose Virtual Museum – https://maryrose.org, especially the Life on Board exhibit
April 6
Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution [online]
John M. Collins, “The Long Parliament and the Law of Necessity in Seventeenth-Century England,” Past & Present 247 (May 2020): 3-35.
April 13
Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London [online]
Jeremy Fradkin, “Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England,” Past & Present 254 (Feb. 2022): 51-85.
explore People of Color in European Art History, also known by its URL as Medieval POC Tumblr – https://medievalpoc.tumblr.com
April 20
Andrea McKenzie, Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England: The Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [online]
explore the Map of Early Modern London – https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca
April 27
Paul Griffiths, Information, Institutions, and Local Government in England, 1550-1700: Turning Inside [online]
EITHER Brodie Waddell, “The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England,” Journal of British Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 568-587. OR Brodie Waddell, “The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c. 1600-1800” Past & Present 253 (Nov. 2021): 151-194.
May 4
Jessica Marie Otis, By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England [online]
Mark Hailwood, “Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550-1700,” Past & Present 260 (Aug. 2023): 38-70.
explore Death by Numbers – https://deathbynumbers.org