Each week is referenced by the Monday that begins it, e.g. the week of January 31st, book reviews are due Mon, January 31st at 11:59pm; book review comments can begin as soon as the first posts are made and continue until Weds, February 2nd at 11:59; and our class session is scheduled Thurs, February 3rd from 7:20-10pm.
Books labeled as being “online” can be accessed through https://library.gmu.edu while books labeled as being on “physical reserve” can be checked out at the Fenwick Library circulation desk.
Weekly Schedule
January 24
Alec Ryrie, The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603 [online]
John Spurr, The Post-Reformation: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714 [physical reserve]
(optional) watch the Tudor Monastery Farm video series [YouTube]
January 31
Mark Ormord, Immigrant England, 1300-1550 [online]
Charlotte Berry, “Guilds, Immigration, and Immigrant Economic Organization: Alien Goldsmiths in London, 1480-1540,” Journal of British Studies 60, no 3 (2021): 534-562, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.2
explore England’s Immigrants Database – https://www.englandsimmigrants.com
February 7
Neil Murphy, The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne: Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544-1550 [online]
explore British History Online – https://www.british-history.ac.uk including the Power of Petitioning database – https://petitioning.history.ac.uk/resources/
(optional) Neil Murphy, “Henry VIII, János Szapolyai, and the Struggle for Hungary, 1526-36,” Sixteenth Century Journal 49, no 1 (2018): 49-74, https://www-escj-org.mutex.gmu.edu/escj-volume. (You will need to SSO/2FA authenticate. If that link doesn’t work, search for the Sixteenth Century Journal via the catalog at library.gmu.edu, log in to view online via the “Single Journals” option, then you can navigate to the 2018 issue to read this).
(optional) explore Anglo-American Legal Tradition – http://aalt.law.uh.edu/IndexPri.html
(optional) explore the Tudor Chamber Books – https://www.dhi.ac.uk/chamber-books/
February 14
Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Hapbsurg Spain [online]
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, “Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach,” ELH 82, no 1 (2015): 1-33, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24477807.
explore Early English Books Online & Early European Books, via https://www.proquest.com/
February 21
Miranda Kaufman, Black Tudors: The Untold Story [physical reserve]
explore People of Color in European Art History, also known by its URL as Medieval POC Tumblr – https://medievalpoc.tumblr.com
February 28
Angela Nicholls, Almshouses in Early Modern England: Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1735 [online]
Mark Hailwood, “Time and Work in Rural England, 1500-1700,” Past & Present 248, no 1 (2020): 87-121, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz065.
(optional) watch the Tales from the Green Valley series [YouTube]
March 7
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown, Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down [physical reserve]
Alexandra Shepard and Tim Stretton, eds. “Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300-1700,” Journal of British Studies Special Issue 4 (2019): 677-804, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/issue/879F6BBAFA35967357BFB41FA777E57F
(optional) explore Who Were the Nuns? – https://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk
(optional) explore the Women Writers Project – https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu
(optional) explore Bess of Hardwick’s Letters – https://www.bessofhardwick.org
March 21
Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, The Murder of King James I [online]
explore Virtual St. Paul’s Cross – https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu – and Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral – https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu
explore Virtual St. Stephen’s Chapel (aka the House of Commons) – https://www.virtualststephens.org.uk
March 28
Richard J. Blakemore and Elaine Murphy, The British Civil Wars at Sea [online]
Thomas Cogswell, “Ten Demi-Culverins for Aldeburgh: Whitehall, the Dunkirkers, and a Suffolk Fishing Community, 1625-1630,” Journal of British Studies 58, no 2 (2019): 315-337, https://doi:10.1017/jbr.2019.1.
explore the Mary Rose Virtual Museum – https://maryrose.org
April 4
Caroline Boswell, Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England [online]
Sonia Tycko, “The Legality of Prisoner of War Labour in England, 1648-1655,” Past & Present 246, no. 1 (2020): 35-68, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz031.
April 11
David Cressy, England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles [online]
Tim Thornton, “Lordship and Sovereignty in the Territories of the English Crown: Sub-kingship and Its Implications, 1300-1600,” Journal of British Studies 60, no 4. (2021): 848-866. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.65.
April 18
Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister [online]
explore the Making and Knowing Project – https://www.makingandknowing.org
explore the Newton Project – https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk
April 25
Craig Spence, Accidents and Violent Deaths in Early Modern London [online]
explore the Map of Early Modern London – https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca
(optional) explore the Hearth Tax Digital – https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:htx
(optional) check on Dr. Otis’ current digital history project, Death by Numbers, the London Bills of Mortality online – https://deathbynumbers.org
May 2
William Derringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age [online]
Jessica Otis, “‘Set Them To the Cyphering Schoole’: Reading, Writing and Arithmetical Education, circa 1540-1700,” Journal of British Studies 56, no. 3 (July 2017), https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.59.
