History 5A: History of Early Britain

Schedule of lecture topics, assignments and exams (Fall 2011)

 

Week

 

1

Date

 

8/29

Topic

 

Introduction to Britain and Its Earliest People

Reading  

 

Ch. 1

2

9/5

Monday: Labor Day - No Classes

Roman Britain

Friday: Last Day to drop with a "W"

Ch. 2

3

9/12

Anglo-Saxon England: Creation of English Monarchy

Ch. 3, pp. 35-50

4

9/19

Anglo-Saxon Enlgand: Government, Society, Culture

Ch. 3, pp. 50-66

5

9/26

Norman England

Ch. 4

6

10/3

The Angevins

Ch. 5

7

10/10

The Thirteenth Century

Ch. 6

8

10/17 Fourteenth Century: War and Crisis

Thursday: Midterm Exam due

Ch. 7, pp. 160-172

9

10/24

Fourteenth Century: Society and Culture

Ch. 7, pp. 172-190

10

10/31 Fifteenth Century: Lancaster and York

Ch. 8

11

11/7

The Reign of Henry VII

Friday: Veterans Day - No Classes

Ch. 9

12

11/14

War and Reformation

Friday: Last Day to Drop with a "W"

Ch. 10

13

11/21

Protestant and Catholic

Thursday/Friday: Thanksgiving - No Classes

Ch.11

14

11/28

Elizabethan England

Thursday: Research Paper due

Ch. 12

15

12/5

Early Stuart England and the English Revolution

Ch. 13 and Ch. 14

16

12/12

Thursday: Final Exam due