HST 260 Primary Documents

 
Topic DOC# -- Author/Title
The Roman Occupation 2. Tacitus, Annals
The Early Anglo-Saxons and the Conversion of Britain 4. Nennius, History of the Britons
5. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
Anglo-Saxon Society 7. Anglo-Saxon Laws
8. Formulas concering Ordeals
9. Beowulf
The Norman Conquest 11. Domesday Book
Lords and Peasants: The Structure of Medieval Society 13. Manorial Court Roll
Church and State in the High Middle Ages 15. William of Newburgh, History
The Development of the English Constitution and the Growth of Parliament 17. Magna Carta
Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Early and High Middle Ages 18. Gerald of Wales, The Conquest of Ireland
Expansion: Population, Towns and Trade
Politics and Warfare in the later Middle Ages 22. Ordinances of 1311 [Handout]
23. Jean Froissart, Chronicles [Handout]
Late Medieval Religion 24. Gregory XI, Papal Bull against John Wycliffe
25. Urban VI, Condemned Conclusions of John Wycliffe
26. William of Newburgh, History
Medieval Culture 27. Bacche bene venies
28. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
The Early Tudors 29. Polydore Vergil, The Anglia Historia
30. Martin Luther, Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz
31. Thomas Cranmer, Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce
32. Act of Supremacy
Early Modern English Society 33. Thomas More, Utopia [Handout]
34. Witchcraft Documents
Civil War and Revolution 35. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
36. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Britain in the Early Modern World 37. Assorted Documents Concerning the English Colonization of America [Handout]