McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 1 TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND 1485-1714 Course Director: Dr Charles Ivar McGrath School of History University College Dublin HIS 3519: Level III Modular Second Semester Academic Session: 2004-5 Day and Time: Thursdays 6.30 pm Course Outline: This course is a general survey course aimed at providing students with a good understanding of Early Modern England. Commencing with the accession of the first of the Tudor monarchs, Henry VII, in 1485, the course follows a traditional chronological approach, examining the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Philip, Elizabeth, James I, Charles I, the Protectorate, Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne. Central topics are examined within that framework, such as the Henrician Reformation, the Marian Reaction, the Counter-Reformation, the Elizabethan Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, the Civil Wars, the Interregnum, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, the Financial Revolution, the Anglo-Scottish Union, and the Hanoverian Succession. Course Texts: The core text books for the course are available for purchase in the campus bookshop, and are marked with an asterisk in the BIBLIOGRAPHY, under the first heading: GENERAL READING Lectures and Essays: A full Lecture Schedule and Essay Programme will be provided to all students at the beginning of the course.
2 McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. GENERAL READING: Aston, Robert, Reformation and Revolution, 1558-1660 (1984). Aylmer, G. E., The Struggle for the Constitution: England in the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689 (1963; 1968). Bindoff, S. T., Tudor England (1950). * Bucholz, R. & Key, N., Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History (2004). * Coward, Barry, The Stuart Age: England 1603-1714 (1980; 1994). Elton, G. R., England under the Tudors (1955; 1991). Guy, J. A., Tudor England (1988). Hill, Christopher, The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 (1961; 1989). Holmes, Geoffrey, The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain, 1660-1783 (1993). Kenyon, J. P., Stuart England (1978; 1990). Key, N. & Bucholz, R. (eds.), Sources and Debates in English History 1485-1714 (2004). Kishlansky, Mark, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 (1996). Morrill, John (ed.), Tudor and Stuart Britain (1996). Nicholls, Mark, A History of the Modern British Isles, 1529-1603: The Two Kingdoms (1999). Russell, Conrad, The Crisis of Parliaments: English History, 1509-1660 (1971; 1981). Sharpe, J. A., Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760 (1987; 1997). * Smith, A. G. R., The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529-1660 (1984; 1997). Smith, D. L., A History of the Modern British Isles: 1603-1707: The Double Crown (1998). Trevelyan, G. M., England under the Stuarts (1904; 1957). Williams, Penry, The Tudor Regime (1979). Woodward, G. W. O., Reformation and Resurgence: England in the Sixteenth Century, 1485-1603 (1963).
McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 3 2. FURTHER READING: A) The Henrician Age, 1485-1547. Bush, Michael, The Pilgrimage of Grace (1996). Beckinsale, B. W., Thomas Cromwell (1978). Chrimes, S. B., Henry VII (1972). Creighton, Mandell, Cardinal Wolsey (1906). Elton, G. R., Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558 (1977). Fletcher, A., & MacCulloch, D. (eds.), Tudor Rebellions (1997). Fox, A. & Guy, J., Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics and Reform 1500-1550 (1986). Grant, Alexander, Henry VII (1985). Harvey, N. L., Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1980). Levine, Mortimer, Tudor Dynastic Problems, 1460-1571 (1973). Lockyer, Roger, Henry VII (1983). Newcombe, D. G., Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1995). MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer (1996). MacCulloch, Diarmaid (ed.), The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (1995). Starkey, David, The Reign of Henry VIII (1985). Randell, Keith, Henry VIII and the Reformation in England (1993; 2001). Rex, Richard, Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1993). Ridley, Jasper, Thomas Cranmer (1962). Scarisbrick, J. J., Henry VIII (1968; 1981). Storey, R. L., The Reign of Henry VII (1968). B) The Edwardian, Marian, and Elizabethan Ages, 1547-1603. Alford, Stephen, The Early Elizabethan Polity: William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569 (1998). Beckinsale, B. W., Burghley: Tudor Statesman (1967). Beer, B. L., Rebellion and Riot: Popular Disorder in England during the Reign of Edward VI (1982).
4 McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 Beesly, E. S., Queen Elizabeth (1892). Browning, Andrew, The Age of Elizabeth (1928; 1935). Creighton, Mandell, Queen Elizabeth (1899). Dodd, A. H., Life in Elizabethan England (1961). Doran, S., & Freeman, T. S. (eds.), The Myth of Elizabeth (2003). Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 (1988). Gallagher, P. & Cruickshank, D. W. (eds.), God s Obvious Design: Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988 (1990). Haigh, Christopher, Elizabeth I (1988). Haigh, Christopher (ed.), The Reign of Elizabeth I (1984). Heard, Nigel, Edward VI and Mary: A mid-tudor Crisis? (2000). Holmes, Peter, Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics (1982). Irwin, Margaret, That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh (1960). Land, S. K., Kett s Rebellion: The Norfolk Rising of 1549 (1977). Levine, Mortimer, The Early Elizabethan Succession Question 1558-1568 (1966). Loach, Jennifer, Edward VI (1999). Loach, Jennifer, Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor (1986). Loach, J. & Tittler, R. (eds.), The mid-tudor Polity c. 1540-1560 (1980). Loades, D. M., The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government, and Religion in England, 1553-1558 (1979). MacCaffrey, Wallace, The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime (1969). Martin, C. & Parker, G. (eds.), The Spanish Armada (1988). Mathew, David, Lady Jane Grey (1972). Neale, J. E., Essays in Elizabethan History (1958). Neale, J. E., Elizabeth I and her Parliaments 1559-1581 (1953). Neale, J. E., Elizabeth I and her Parliaments 1584-1601 (1957). Neale, J. E., Queen Elizabeth I (1934; 1966).
McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 5 Palliser, D. M., The Age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603 (1983: Social and Economic History of England Series). Plowden, Alison, As They Saw Her Elizabeth I (1971). Read, Conyers, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (1960). Rowse, A. L., The England of Elizabeth: The Structure of Society (1950; 2003). Rowse, A. L., Froude s Spanish Story of the Armada (1988). Rowse, A. L., The Expansion of Elizabethan England (1955; 2003). Schenk, W., Reginald Pole, Cardinal of England (1950). Singman, J. L., Daily Life in Elizabethan England (1995). Smith, A. G., William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth (1934). Tillyard, E. M. W., The Elizabethan World Picture (1943; 1973). Tittler, Robert, The Reign of Mary I (1983). Thompson, Edward, Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the Elizabethans (1935). Walker, J. M., Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (1998). Williams, Neville, Elizabeth, Queen of England (1967). Williams, Penry, The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603 (1995). Williamson, J. A., The Age of Drake (1938; 1965). C) The Early Stuarts and the Civil Wars, 1603-1660. Aston, Robert, The English Civil War: Conservatism and Revolution 1603-1649 (1978; 1989). Aylmer, G. E. (ed.), The Interregnum: The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660 (1972). Aylmer, G. E., Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660 (1986). Barnard, Toby, The English Republic 1649-1660 (1982). Bennett, Martyn, The English Civil War (1995). Bennett, Martyn, The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638-1651 (1997). Bennett, Martyn, The Civil Wars, 1637-1653 (1998). Carlin, Norah, The Causes of the English Civil War (1999). Carlton, Charles, Charles I: The Personal Monarch (1983; 1995).
6 McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 Carrier, Irene, James VI and I: King of Great Britain (1998). Cust, R., & Hughes, A. (eds.), The English Civil War (1997). Gaunt, Peter, Oliver Cromwell (1996-7). Gaunt, Peter, The British Wars, 1637-1651 (1997). Hill, Christopher, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (1972). Hirst, Derek, England in Conflict, 1603-1660 (1999). Hirst, Derek, Authority and Conflict: England, 1603-1658 (1986). Houston, S. J., James I (1973; 1995). Hughes, Ann, The Causes of the English Civil War (1991). Hutton, Ronald, The British Republic, 1649-1660 (1990). Jones, C., Newitt, M. and Roberts, S. (eds.), Politics and People in Revolutionary England (1986). Kenyon, J. P., The Civil Wars of England (1988; 1996). Lockyer, Roger, James VI and I (1998). Manning, Brian (ed.), Politics, Religion and the English Civil War (1973). Merritt, J. F. (ed.), The Political world of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641 (1996). Morrill, John (ed.), Reactions to the English Civil War, 1642-1649 (1982; 1994). Morrill, John (ed.), Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s (1992). Morrill, John (ed.), Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (1990). Quintrell, Brian, Charles I, 1625-1640 (1993). Roots, Ivan, The Great Rebellion, 1642-1660 (1966). Russell, Conrad, The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-1642 (1991). Russell, Conrad, The Causes of the English Civil War (1990). Russell, Conrad, Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 (1990). Russell, Conrad (ed.), The Origins of the English Civil War (1973; 1980). Sharpe, Kevin, Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History (1978). Smith, G. R. (ed.), The Reign of James VI and I (1973).
McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 7 Sommerville, J. P., Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 (1986; 1992). Stone, Lawrence, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642 (1972). Tomlinson, Howard (ed.), Before the English Civil War: Essays on Early Stuart Politics and Government (1983). Trevor-Roper, H. R., Archbishop Laud 1573-1645 (1940; 1962) Wedgwood, C. V., Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641 (1961; 1971). Wedgwood, C. V., The Great Rebellion: The King s Peace, 1637-1641 (1955). Wedgwood, C. V., The Great Rebellion: The King s War, 1641-1647 (1958). Young, M. B., Charles I (1997). D) The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution, 1660-1714. Baxter, Stephen, William III (1966). Beddard, Robert (ed.), The Revolutions of 1688 (1991). Bliss, R. M., Restoration England, 1660-1688 (1985). Chandaman, C. D., The English Public Revenue 1660-1688 (1975). Dickson, P. G. M., The Financial Revolution in England. A Study in the Development of Public Credit 1688-1756 (1967). Glassey, L. K. J. (ed.), The Reigns of Charles II and James VII and II (1997). Gregg, Edward, Queen Anne (1980). Harris, Tim, Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715 (1993). Harris, T., Seward, P. & Goldie, M. (eds.), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (1990). Hill, B. W., The Growth of Parliamentary Parties, 1689-1714 (1976). Hoak, D. & Feingold, M. (eds.), The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89 (1996). Holmes, Geoffrey (ed.), Britain after the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714 (1969). Hoppit, Julian (ed.), Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850 (2003). Horwitz, Henry, Parliament, Policy and Politics in the Reign of William III (1977). Hutton, Ronald, The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658-1667 (1986; 1998).
8 McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 Hutton, Ronald, Charles II (1989). Israel, J. I. (ed.), The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact (1991). Jones, Clyve (ed.), Party and Management in Parliament, 1660-1784 (1984). Jones, Clyve (ed.), Britain in the First Age of Party, 1680-1750 (1987). Jones, D. W., War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough (1988). Jones, J. R. (ed.), The Restored Monarchy (1979). Jones, J. R., Country and Court: England 1658-1714 (1978). Jones, J. R., The Revolution of 1688 in England (1972). Kenyon, J. P., The Popish Plot (1972; 2000). Miller, John, Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688 (1973). Miller, John, Charles II (1991). Miller, John, James II: A Study in Kingship (1991). Miller, John, The Glorious Revolution (1983; 1997). Morrah, Patrick, Restoration England (1979). Plumb, J. H., The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725 (1967). Rose, Craig, England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War (1999). Roseveare, Henry, The Financial Revolution 1660-1760 (1991). Rubini, Dennis, Court and Country, 1688-1702 (1967). Seaward, Paul, The Restoration, 1660-1688 (1991). Speck, W. A., Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 (1988). Thirsk, Joan, The Restoration (1976). E) Specialist Works. Braddick, M. J., The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714 (1996). Bradshaw, B. & Morrill, J. (eds.), The British Problem, c. 1534-1707. State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (1996). Bradshaw, B. & Roberts, P. (eds.), British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707 (1998).
McGrath: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 9 Cross, C., Loades, D., & Scarisbrick, J. J. (eds.), Law and Government under the Tudors (1988). Ellis, S. G., & Barber, Sarah (eds.), Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State, 1485-1725 (1995). Elton, G. R., Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews (4 vols., 1974; 1983; 1992). Garvin, Katherine, The Great Tudors (1956). Graves, M. A. R. & Silcock, R. H., Revolution, Reaction, and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History 1558-1700 (1984). Guth, D. J. & McKenna, J. W. (eds.), Tudor Rule and Revolution (1982). Guy, John (ed.), The Tudor Monarchy (1997). Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (1993). Hurstfield, Joel (ed.), The Tudors (1973). Loach, Jennifer, Parliament under the Tudors (1991). Loades, David, Tudor Government (1997). Levack, B. P., The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union of 1603-1707 (1987). MacInnes, A. & Ohlmeyer, J. (eds.), The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours (2002). Manning, R. B., Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509-1640 (1988). Mason, R. A. (ed.), Scotland and England 1286-1815 (1987). Slack, Paul (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England (1984). Smith, D. L., The Stuart Parliaments 1603-1689 (1999). Todd, Margot (ed.), Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England (1995). Stone, Lawrence (ed.), Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 (1965). Williams, Penry, Life in Tudor England (1964). Wrightson, Keith, English Society 1580-1680 (1982: Social History of England Series).