COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
History 601M
READING SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:
Protestantism, Politics, and Gender in the Atlantic
World, 1550-1800
Spring 2012
Dr. Melinda Zook
Phone: 494-4134
Email: [email protected]
Office: University Hall 327
Office hours: Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 or by appointment
Monday, 3:40-6:30
University Hall 319
Course Description
This graduate reading seminar focuses around the historiographical debates over religious
and political conflict in the British Isles and transatlantic world in the early modern era.
Topics include: late medieval Catholicism and the impact of the Protestant and Catholic
Reformations on politics, culture, and society in sixteenth-century England, Scotland,
Ireland and the Americas; gender and violence in England and Ireland in the early
seventeenth century; Puritanism in early Stuart England and radical sectarianism during
the Civil Wars; the religious diversity in North America; the role of women in the
religious controversies of the seventeenth century in England, Scotland and abroad; and
the impact of empire, nationalism, and religious pluralism in eighteenth-century Britain.
Required Texts
Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
(Yale, 2001)
Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the Second Earl of
Castlehaven (Oxford, 2001)
Paul S. Seaver, Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
(Stanford, 1985)
Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
(Norton, 1998)
Carla Pestana, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World
(Penn State Press, 2009)
Linda Colley, Britons: Forging a Nation, 1707-1837 (Yale, revised edition, 2009)
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Requirements
Throughout the semester, students will hand in two-page critiques of the assigned
readings. On most occasions, these short essays will address the author‟s thesis,
methodology, sources, and contributions to the field. In addition, students will be asked
to prepare short bibliographies, present oral reviews of their readings, and participate in
class discussions.
Final Grades will be determined as follows:
Written assignments
Oral presentations
Class participation
60%
20%
20%
Rules of the Game
Students must attend all classes, arriving on time. Late papers will be penalized. Students
need to turn off their cell-phones once they enter the class room. Students may use a laptop
or i-pad during class so long as they are using a word processing program. They may not
access the internet.
Students are encouraged to use proper email etiquette in any e-communication with me and
with all their professors (e.g., an email should begin with a salutation such as “Dear
Professor X;” and end with a proper closing, such as “Sincerely” or “Yours.”).
I take plagiarism extremely seriously. If you use someone else‟s words or ideas without
proper citation you may consider your graduate career at an end.
Schedule of Readings & Discussions
January 9
Introduction to the Course
January 16
No Class: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 23
The Old Faith & the King’s Great Matter
Doreen Rosman, The Evolution of the English Churches,
1500-1600, Chapters 1 & 2 (handed out in class)
And, G.W. Bernard, “The Making of Religious Policy, 1533-1546:
Henry VIII & the Search for the Middle Way,” The Historical
Journal 42/2 (1998): 321-49
And, Pestana, Protestant Empire, Introduction & Chapter 1
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January 30
Reformation & Counter Reformation
Patrick Collins, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (Jonathan Cape, 1967)
Susan Brigden, “Youth & the English Reformation,” Past & Present 95 (1982): 37-67
Christopher Haigh, The English Reformations: Religion, Politics, & Society under the
Tudors (Oxford University Press, 1993).
Christopher Haigh, ed. The English Reformation Revised (Cambridge University Press,
1989).
Norman Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament & the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (Royal
Historical Society, 1982).
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI & the Protestant
Reformation (Allen Lane, 2000).
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 (Palgrave, 2001).
Peter Marshall, The Catholic Priesthood & the English Reformation (Oxford University
Press,1994)
Robert Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion & the English
Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
David Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor (Longman, 2nd ed. 1991)
Susan Brigden, London & the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Maria Dowling, “Anne Boleyn & Reform,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History
36 (1985): 30-46
Maria Dowling, “The Gospel & the Court Reformation Under Henry VIII,” in
Protestantism & the National Church in the Sixteenth Century England, eds., Peter Lake
& Maria Dowling (Routledge,1987)
Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: England under Mary Tudor (Yale University Press, 2009)
Hiram Morgan, “‟Never Any Realm Worse Governed‟: Queen Elizabeth & Ireland,” Royal
Historical Society 14 (2004): 295-308
Brendan Bradshaw, “Sword, Word, and Strategy in the Reformation in Ireland,” Historical
Journal 21/3 (1978): 475-502
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Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Clare Kellar, Scotland, England and the Reformation, 1534-61 (Oxford University Press,
2003)
Ian B. Cowan, The Scottish Reformation: Church & Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
(New York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1982)
February 6
The Impact of Religious Change
Discuss Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
February 13
British Isles, Reformation, & the New World
Pestana, Protestant Empire, Chapter 2
Stephen J. Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the
Sixteenth Century,” in Stephen J. Greenblatt, Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern
Culture (New York: Routledge, 1990)
James Horn, “The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia,” in
Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds.
Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Alden T. Vaughan, “Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England,” in Envisioning an
English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert
Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Robert Appelbaum, “Hunger in early Virginia: Indians and English facing Off over Excess,
Want, and Need,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North
Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2005)
Michael J. Guasco, “Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in early Anglo-Atlantic
World,” in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic
World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005)
Andrew Hadfield, “Irish Colonies and the Americas,” in Envisioning an English Empire:
Jamestown and the Making of North Atlantic World, eds. Robert Appelbaum and John
Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Harvard University
Press, 1999), introduction, chapters 1 &2.
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February 20
Gender, Law, and Order the Early Stuarts
Discuss Herupp, A House in Gross Disorder
And, William Palmer, “Gender, Violence, Rebellion in Tudor &
Early Stuart Ireland,” Sixteenth-Century Journal 23 (1992): 699-712
February 27
The Hotter Sort of Protestant: The Puritan’s World
Discuss Paul Seaver, Wallington’s World
March 5
The Civil Wars & the Rise of Sectarianism
Doreen Rosman, The Evolution of the English Churches,
1500-1600, Chapter 5 (handed out in class)
And, Pestana, Protestant Empire, Chapters 3-5
Ranters
Muggletonians
The Family of Love (or Familists)
Quakers
Presbyterians
Independents
Seekers
Baptists
Fifth Monarchists
March 12
Spring Break
March 19
Women & Religion
Read Patricia Crawford, “The Challenges to Patriarchalism: How did
the Revolution affect Women?” in Revolution & Restoration:
England in the 1650s ed. John Morrill (Collins & Brown, 1992).
Keith Thomas, “Women and the Civil War Sects,” Past & Present 13 (1958): 42-62
Claire Cross, “He-Goats before the Flocks:‟ A Note on the Part Played by Women in
Founding of Some Civil War Churches,” Studies in Church History 8 (1972): 195-202
Patricia Higgins, “The Reactions of Women, with Special Reference to Women
Petitioners,” in Politics, Religion, and the English Civil War, ed. Brian Manning
(London: Edward Arnold, 1973), 179-222
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H. Barbour, “Quaker Prophetesses & Mothers of Israel,” in Seeking The Light: Essays in
Quaker History, eds. W. Frost & J. Moore (Pendle Hill, 1986).
Anne Laurence, “A Priesthood of She-Believers: Women and Congregations in MidSeventeenth-Century England,” in Women in the Church, eds. W. J. Shields and Diana
Woods (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990)
Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Diane Purkiss, “Reproducing the voice, consuming the body: Women Prophets of the
seventeenth century,” in Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, eds. I. Grundy & S.
Wiseman (University of Georgia Press,1992).
Ann Hughes, “Gender and Politics in Leveller Literature,” in Political Culture and
Cultural Politics in England, eds. Susan Amussen and Mark Kishlansky, (Manchester
University Press, 1995), 162-88
J. K. Gardiner, “Margaret Fell Fox and Feminist Literary History: A „Mother in Israel‟
Calls to the Jews,” in The Emergence Quaker Writing, eds. T. Corns & D. Loewenstein
(Frank Cass,1996)
Hilary Hinds, God’s Englishwomen: Seventeenth-century radical sectarian writing and
feminist criticism (Manchester University Press, 1996)
Elaine Hobby, “‟Come Live a Preaching Life:‟ Female Community in the SeventeenthCentury Radical Sects,” in Female Communities, 1600-1800, eds. Rebecca D‟Monte and
Nicole Pohl (New York: St. Martin‟s Press, 2000), 76-91
Katharine Gillespie, Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge
University Press, 2004)
Amanda E. Herbert, “Companions in Preaching and Suffering: Itinerant Female Quakers
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century British Atlantic World,”
Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9/1, (Winter 2011): 73-113
Lyle Koehler, The Case of the American Jezebels: Anne Hutchinson and Female
Agitation during the Years of Antinominian Turmoil, 1636-1640,” William and Mary
Quarterly 31 (1974): 55-78.
March 26
Gender, the British Isles, & The New World
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Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
(Norton paperback, 1998)
Richard Weisman, Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th Century Massachusetts
(Amherst, 1984)
John Putman Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and Culture in Early New England
(New York, 1982)
Christina Larner, Enemies of God: The Witch-hunt in Scotland (Baltimore, 1981)
David D. Hall, “Witchcraft and the Limits of Interpretation,” New England Quarterly 58
(1985)
Julian Goodare, “Women and the Witch-hunt in Scotland,” Social History 23/3 (1998)
Owen Davies, “Urbanization & the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London,”
Journal of Social History 30/3 (1997)
Clive Holmes, “Popular Culture? Witches, Magistrates and Divines in Early Modern
England,” in Understanding Popular Culture: Europe from the Middle Ages in the
Nineteenth Century, ed. Steven Kaplan (New York, 1984), 85-111
Lyndal Roper, “Witchcraft & Fantasy in early modern Germany,” History Workshop 32
(1991)
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, “The European Witchcraft Debate & the Dutch Variant,”
Journal of Social History 15 (1990)
Thomas Harmon Jobe, “The Devil in Restoration Science: The Glanville-Webster
Debate,” ISIS 72 (1981)
Phyllis Guskin, “The Context of Witchcraft: The Case of Jane Wenham (1712),”
Eighteenth Century Studies 15 (1981)
April 2
Colonial Experiences & Transatlantic Connections
Increase Mather
William Penn
Edward Whalley and William Goffe
Hugh Peters
Samuel Gordon
William and Jane Hooke
Mary Dyer
Elizabeth Hooten
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Joan Vokins
Anne Hutchinson
April 9
Nationalism and Identity Formation
Elizabeth Mancke, “The Languages of Liberty in British North America, 1607-1776,” in
Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900, ed. Jack P. Greene (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth Mancke, “Negotiating an Empire: Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 15501780,” in Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820 (New
York: Routledge, 2002)
Jack P. Greene, “Transatlantic Colonization and the Re-definition of Empire in the Early
Modern Era: The British American Experience,” in Negotiated Empires: Centers and
Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820 (New York: Routledge, 2002)
Michael Zuckerman, “Identity in British American: Unease in Eden,” in Colonial Identity in
the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, eds. Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987)
Nicholas Canny, “Identity Formation in Ireland: The Emergence of the Anglo-Irish,” in
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, eds. Nicholas Canny and Anthony
Pagden (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)
April 16
Empire & British Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century
Discuss Colley, Britons: Forging a Nation
And, Pestana, Protestant Empire, Chapters 6-conclusion
April 23
Review
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