REFORMATION IN ENGLAND
Instructor:Jakub Basista, PhD
Course:Elective, 30 hours
Value:4 ECTS points
Time:winter semester 2017/2018
Tuesdays8:00-9:30
Venue: Collegium Witkowskiego – room 17
Prerequisites:None
Office Hours:Tuesdays10:00-11:00.
E-mail:
Web:
ECTS point distribution:
•1 ECTS - participation in class
•1 ECTS – for a written essay
•2 ECTS –preparation and final written exam passing
EVALUATION:
Attendance will be monitored, and students encouraged to attend classes. The limit will be at 75% of mandatory attendance. More than 25% classes will result in an additional essay.
Every student must present one written essay and take the final written exam.
The essay will be devoted to a historical person important for the Reformation in England. Instructor will need to accept the chosen person.
Deadline for the essay 28 November 2017.
Final exam will be written. Students will receive 12 questions and will have 90 minutes to answer three of them in form of essays.
Exam date: 29 January 2018.
WRITTEN EXAM WILL TAKE PLACE ON 29 January 2018 AT 9:00-11:00 IN THE AULA (ROOM 106).
Duration of the exam 90 minutes. Each student will receive 12 questions and will be requested to answer 3 in a form of short essays.
Both the home written essay and the exam are necessary to pass the course.
NOTE ON PLAGIARISM:
A PLAGIARISED essay will result in failing the course.
A quick search at Amazon.co.uk for books on English Reformation returned 12,442 results.
English Reformation is, doubtlessly, one of the hottest research topics in early modern English history.
A.G.Dickens, The English Reformation, 1964.
Christopher Haigh, English Reformations
1993.
Richard Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation, 2006.
W.J.Shields, The English Reformation, 1989.
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, 2005 (2nd edition).
Gerald Bray, Documents of the English Reformation, 1994.
Rosemary O’Day, The Debate on the English Reformation, 1986.
Not Angels, but Anglicans, ed. Henry Chadwick, Canterbury Press Norwich 2010.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Meeting 1
Introduction; course description; syllabus
Meeting 2 Lecture notes 2Lecture notes 2a
The Beginnings; The Middle Ages
Meeting 3Lecture notes 3
John Wycliffe and Lollardy
Meeting 4Lecture notes 4
Henry VIII and Rome
Meeting 5Lecture notes 5
Henry VIII and Reformation
Meeting 6Lecture notes 6
Edward VI; Thomas Cranmer and reformation
Meeting 7Lecture notes 7
Mary Tudor and counterreformation
Meeting 8Lecture notes 8
Elizabethan Settlement
Meeting 9Lecture notes 9
ElizabethanChurch; John Fox and „The Book of Martyrs”
Puritans; Martin Marprelate Tracts; Richard Hooker and his vision of the Church
Meeting 10Lecture notes 10
English Church during the reign of James I
Meeting 11Lecture notes 11
Charles I; William Laud; The Beginning of the Civil War and Revolution; Religious Propaganda in mid-17th century
Meeting 12Lecture notes 12
The Westminster Confession of Fait; The Restoration and the Clarendon Code; Parliamentary Policy (Religious) during the reign of Charles II and James II; Religion and the Question of English Succession.