| Date |
Lecture/Discussion Topic |
Assignment |
Week 1 |
| Tues (1/14) |
Introduction
Film -- A
History of Britain:
Beginnings
|
|
| Thurs (1/16) |
Prehistoric Britain |
TEXTBOOK Ch. 1
|
Week 2 |
| Tues (1/21) |
The Roman Occupation |
DOC
1-2
MAP QUIZ #1
|
| Thurs (1/23) |
The Early Anglo-Saxons
and the Conversion of Britain |
DOC
3-5
TEXTBOOK Ch. 2
|
Week 3 |
| Tues (1/28) |
Anglo-Saxon Society |
DOC 6-9
QUIZ #1
|
| Thurs (1/30) |
Film -- Vikings |
|
Week 4 |
| Tues (2/4) |
The Norman Conquest |
DOC 10-11
TEXTBOOK Ch. 4
|
| Thurs (2/6) |
Film -- The
Great British Story: The
Norman Yoke |
MAP
QUIZ #2 |
|
|
Week 5 |
| Tues (2/11) |
Lords
and Peasants: The
Structure of
Medieval Society |
DOC 12-13
|
| Thurs (2/13) |
Church
and State in
the High
Middle Ages |
DOC 14-15
TEXTBOOK Ch.
5 |
Week 6 |
| Tues (2/18) |
The Development of the
English Constitution and the Growth of
Parliament |
DOC 16-17
TEXTBOOK
Ch. 6 |
| Thurs (2/20) |
Film -- A
History of Britain: Nations
|
QUIZ #2
|
February
24-28 -- Winter
Break -- No Class
Week 7 |
| Tues (3/3) |
Ireland, Scotland and
Wales in the Early and High Middle Ages
|
DOC
18
TEXTBOOK Ch. 3 |
| Thurs (3/5) |
Review |
|
Week 8 |
| Tues (3/10) |
Midterm Exam |
|
| Thurs (3/12) |
Expansion:
Population, Towns and Trade |
DOC
19-21 |
Week 9 |
| Tues (3/17) |
Politics and Warfare
in the later Middle Ages |
DOC
22-23
TEXTBOOK Ch.
7, 8 |
| Thurs (3/19) |
Late Medieval
Religion |
DOC
24-26
QUIZ #3 |
|
|
Week 10 |
| Tues (3/24) |
Medieval Culture |
DOC
27-28
|
| Thurs (3/26) |
Film --
The
Great British Story: The Great Rising
|
|
Week 11 |
| Tues (3/31) |
The Early Tudors |
DOC
29-32
TEXTBOOK
Ch. 10, 12
QUIZ #4 |
| Thurs (4/2) |
Film --
The
Great British Story: Lost Worlds and New
Worlds
|
|
Week 12 |
| Tues (4/7) |
Early Modern English
Society |
DOC
33-34
TEXTBOOK Ch.
9
QUIZ #5 |
| Thurs (4/9) |
Film --
A
History of Britain: the Body of
the Queen
|
|
Week 13 |
| Tues (4/14) |
Civil War and
Revolution |
DOC
35-36
TEXTBOOK Ch. 13, 14,
15
Film Review Due!
|
| Thurs (4/16) |
Ireland, Scotland and
Wales in the Later Middle Ages and the
Tudor-Stuart Years |
TEXTBOOK Ch. 11 |
Week 14 |
| Tues (4/21) |
Britain in the Early
Modern World |
DOC 37
QUIZ #6 |
| Thurs (4/23) |
Review |
|
Week 15 |
| Tues (4/28) |
Final
Exam |
|
| Thurs (4/30) |
Individual
Meetings (Pick
up exams/final grades in my office) |
|
|
|
|
|
History of
England