HST 260 Class Schedule

  ► = change from the original schedule
Date Lecture/Discussion Topic Assignment

Week 1
Mon (8/27) Introduction
Wed (8/29) Prehistoric Britain Text pp. 1-13

Week 2
Mon (9/3) No Class  -  Labor Day Holiday
Wed (9/5) The Roman Occupation DOC 1-2; Text pp. 13-20; MAP QUIZ #1

Week 3
Mon (9/10) The Early Anglo-Saxons and the Conversion of Britain DOC 3-5; Text pp. 21-29
Wed (9/12) Anglo-Saxon Society DOC 6-9; Text pp. 32-37, 41-48;  QUIZ #1

Week 4
Mon (9/17) The Norman Conquest DOC 10-11; Text pp. 29-32, 39-41, 51-57
Wed (9/19) Lords and Peasants: The Structure of Medieval Society DOC 12-13; Text pp. 115-127

Week 5
Mon (9/24) Church and State in the High Middle Ages DOC 14-15; Text pp. 57-61, 63-68
Wed (9/26) The Early Plantagenets [Film] MAP QUIZ #2

Week 6
Mon (10/1) The Development of the English Constitution and the Growth of Parliament DOC 16-17; Text pp. 68-84
Wed (10/3) Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Early and High Middle Ages DOC 18; Text pp. 37-39, 61-63, 84-89; QUIZ #2

Week 7
Mon (10/8) Edward I: Caesar of Britain  [Film]
Wed (10/10) The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages - Book Discussion Book Quiz #1;  Paper Due!

Week 8
Mon (10/15) Review
Wed (10/17) Midterm Exam

Week 9
Mon (10/22) Expansion: Population, Towns and Trade DOC 19-21
Wed (10/24) ► The Black Death and the Social Changes that Followed [Film] Text pp. 93-94

Week 10
Mon (10/29) ► Politics and Warfare in the later Middle Ages DOC 22-23; Text pp. 90-93, 94-112
Wed (10/31) ► Late Medieval Religion DOC 24-26; Text pp. 128-139; QUIZ #3

Week 11
Mon (11/5) Medieval Culture DOC 27-28; Text pp. 139-143
Wed (11/7) The Early Tudors DOC 29-32; Text pp. 153-162; QUIZ #4

Week 12
Mon (11/12) The English Reformation  [Film] Text pp. 162-183
Wed (11/14) Early Modern English Society DOC 33-34; Text pp. 261-294; QUIZ #5


   19-25 Nov --  Thanksgiving Week -- No Classes

Week 13 
Mon (11/26) Civil War and Revolution DOC 35-36; Text pp. 209-260
Wed (11/28) The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots - Book Discussion Text pp. 183-195; Book Quiz #2

Week 14
Mon (12/3) Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Later Middle Ages and the Tudor-Stuart Years Text pp. 102, 105-106, 112-113, 143-149, 197-208; QUIZ #6
Wed (12/5) ► Class Canceled

Week 15
Mon (12/10) ► 1. Mini-lecture on Britain in the Early Modern World
► 2. Review		 DOC 37
Wed (12/12) Final Exam

Week 16

Mon (12/17) Individual Meetings (Pick up exams/final grades in my office)