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THE ELIZABETHAN REFORMATION:
MODULE HANDBOOK
2012-13
THE ELIZABETHAN REFORMATION
Seminar Tutor: Adam Morton, Room 317. Tel 024 76 523452
Seminar times: Friday 1.00-3.00
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
This Special Subject explores the impact and significance of religious developments in England in the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), with the aim of showing how they transformed society, culture and politics at both national and local levels. It was during these decades that England finally became a ‘Protestant country’, though the process was controversial and unstable, producing dissent and rebellion, as well as a fair degree of de facto pluralism and some qualified toleration of difference.
Students will be expected to engage with the legal, liturgical and doctrinal aspects of this transformation, but also to assess it as a process of cultural transition, involving accommodation and negotiation between rulers and ruled, and between neighbours. The recent historiography of the Elizabethan Reformation (and of its sub-fields like Puritanism and Catholicism) has been particularly lively and contentious, and as the module develops, students will increasingly familiarize themselves with this literature, and demonstrate a capacity to assess it critically.
Students will also be introduced to a range of different types of primary source - literary and polemical texts, administrative records of church and state, private letters and memoirs - which students will learn to interrogate and contextualize effectively. It is expected that the majority of the students on the module will deploy the skills and knowledge acquired in the researching and writing of a dissertation linked to the themes of the module.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES:
· a sound knowledge of the main events and themes of the Elizabethan Reformation
· an understanding of historiographical developments and debates, and an ability critically to assess them
· enhanced presentational and debating skills
· confidence in the techniques of independent research and study, including the evaluation and deployment of primary source materials
· use of information technology in research and learning
TEACHING AND LIBRARY
Seminars will 2 hours in length, and will take place in room H3.43 unless otherwise indicated.
Reading lists are provided below, but please get in touch with me as a matter of urgency if you experience any difficulty getting hold of sufficient reading materials for seminars or essays. Items which I know to be available as e-books are marked [E] in the lists. Don’t forget to check for electronic copies of journal articles through the Library’s electronic resources page, as well as or in addition to looking for hard copies in the periodicals section of the Library. To make sure there is maximum access to the reading materials, usual rules of courtesy and good sense apply. Return books to the library as soon as you’ve finished with them. Put journals back in their places on the shelf. Try to set up sharing networks with others in the seminar.
MODULE REQUIREMENTS
i) Non-assessed essays: two non-assessed essay (c. 2000 words) to be handed in to me by Monday of week 7 of the autumn and spring terms. If you are linking the dissertation to the module, a 2000 word dissertation proposal can be substituted for the non-assessed essay.
ii) Assessed essays and exams: either a three-hour exam paper (1 unit) or (for students not linking the dissertation to the module) a two-hour exam paper (½ unit) and one essay of 4500 words (½ unit).
There is the opportunity of attaching your final-year dissertation module to this module.
For assessed essay deadlines, see the Year 3 Handbook. Some of the seminar questions provide a suitable basis for long essay titles, but everyone will have the opportunity to discuss and agree a title – whether for long essay or dissertation - with me.
AM
October 2012
MODULE OVERVIEW
Seminar 1: Introduction / Planning
Seminar 2: The Elizabethan ‘Settlement’ I
Seminar 3: The Elizabethan ‘Settlement’ II
Seminar 4: The Enforcement of the Settlement I
Seminar 5: The Enforcement of the Settlement II
Seminar 6: The Birth of Puritanism I
Seminar 7: The Birth of Puritanism II
Seminar 8: The Crisis of 1568-70 I
Seminar 9: The Crisis of 1568-70 II
Seminar 10: From Majority to Minority: the Catholic Experience I
Seminar 11: From Majority to Minority: the Catholic Experience II
Seminar 12: Culture Wars: Puritans and Antipuritans I
Seminar 13: Culture Wars: Puritans and Antipuritans II
Seminar 14: Conformity and Popular Religious Culture I
Seminar 15: Conformity and Popular Religious Culture II
Seminar 16: Regime Change: Hopes and Fears in 1603 I
Seminar 17: Regime Change: Hopes and Fears in 1603 II
Seminar 18: Summing Up / Dissertations
As indicated above, there will be two seminars on each of the main themes, the first focused on historical and historiographical themes and debates, the second on reading and analysing primary sources. These will take place on alternate weeks.
Introductory / General Reading
There is no ‘set text’ for this module, but there are a number of general works dealing with religion and the Reformation in the later part of the sixteenth century which will often provide useful context and orientation, and a pathway into the more specialist reading on individual topics.
Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford, 1993)
Heal, Felicity, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2003)
Hughes, Philip, The Reformation in England (vol. 3, 1954, or single vol. edn, 1963)
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, The Later Reformation in England (1990 and 2nd ed. 2002)
Marshall, Peter, Reformation England 1480-1642 (2003 and 2nd ed. 2012)
Ryrie, Alec, The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms, 1485-1603 (London, 2009)
You are also encouraged to make use of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ONDB), accessible through the Library’s electronic database pages: this supplies reliable short biographies, and further reading suggestions, for a host of individuals from the period.
Topic I: The Elizabethan ‘Settlement’
Seminar 2:
Presentation: ‘Was the “Religious Settlement” of 1559 the product of Elizabeth’s religious belief, the will of parliament, or the conditions of the moment?’
Questions for discussion:
v Assess the religious condition of England on the accession of Elizabeth I.
v What were the principal aims of the Religious Settlement of 1559?
v Was Elizabeth I the saviour of English Protestantism?
Seminar Reading:
Alford, Stephen, ‘Reassessing William Cecil in the 1560s’, in John Guy, ed., The Tudor Monarchy (London, 1997)
Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I (New Haven and London, 2008), chaps 7-8
Bowers, Roger, ‘The Chapel Royal, the first Edwardian Prayer Book, and Elizabeth’s Settlement of Religion, 1559’, Historical Journal, 43 (2000)
Collinson, Patrick, ‘Windows into a Woman’s Soul: Questions about the Religion of Queen Elizabeth I’, in his Elizabethan Essays (London, 1994)
Collinson, Patrick, ‘Elizabeth I’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Online
Crankshaw, D. J., ‘Preparations for the Canterbury Provincial Convocation of 1562-63: A Question of Attribution’, in Wabuda, S., and Litzenberger, C., eds, Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson from his Students (Aldershot, 1998)
Cross, Claire, The Royal Supremacy in the Elizabethan Church (London, 1969), pp. 1-37
Doran, Susan, ‘Elizabeth I’s Religion: Clues from her Letters’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 52 (2001)
Haugaard, William P., Elizabeth and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 1968), esp. chaps 3, 6
Hoak, Dale , ‘A Tudor Deborah?: The Coronation of Elizabeth I, Parliament, and the Problem of Female Rule’, in Christopher Highley and John N. King, eds, John Foxe and his World (Aldershot, 2002)
Hudson, W. S., The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 (Durham, N.C., 1980)
Jenkins, Gary W. John Jewel and the English National Church: The Dilemmas of an Erastian Reformer (Aldershot, 2006), chaps 1-2
Jones, Norman, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (London, 1982)
Jones, Norman, ‘Elizabeth’s First Year: The Conception and Birth of the Elizabethan Political World’, in Christopher Haigh, ed., The Reign of Elizabeth I (Basingstoke, 1984)
Jones, Norman, The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Oxford, 1993), chaps 2-3
MacCaffrey, Wallace, Elizabeth I (London, 1993), chaps 4-5, 23
MacCulloch, Diarmaid Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (London, 1999), pp. 185 ff.
Neale, J. E., ‘The Elizabethan Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity’, English Historical Review, 65 (1950)
Neale, J. E., Elizabeth I and her Parliaments, 1559-1581 (London, 1953)
Pettegree, Andrew ‘The Marian Exiles and the Elizabethan Settlement’, in Pettegree, ed., Marian Protestantism: Six Studies (Aldershot, 1996)
Rex, Richard, Elizabeth I: Fortune’s Bastard (Stroud, 2003), chaps 4-5
Starkey, David, Elizabeth: Apprenticeship (London, 200), chaps 38-44
Sutherland, N. M. ‘The Marian Exiles and the Establishment of the Elizabethan Regime,’ Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, 78 (1987),
Walsham, Alexandra ‘“A Very Deborah?” The Myth of Elizabeth I as a Providential Monarch’, in Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth (Basingstoke, 2003)
Seminar 3:
Documents:
[There are about 40 pages of sources to read for each seminar. EHD = Ian W Archer and Douglas F. Price, eds, English Historical Documents 1558-1603 (London, 2011).]
‘The device for the alteration of religion’, EHD, pp. 26-9
‘Viscount Montague’s Speech in the House of Lords’, EHD, pp. 32-3
‘The Act of Supremacy’, EHD, pp. 33-8
‘The Act of Uniformity’, EHD, pp. 38-41
‘Royal Injunctions, 1559’, EHD, pp. 41-53
Extracts from the 1559 Book of Common Prayer: ‘Of Ceremonies, why some be Abolished and Some Retained’; ‘The Order of the Ministration of the Holy Communion’, John E. Booty, ed., The Book of Common Prayer 1559 (Washington, 1976), pp. 18-2, 247-9, 258-68
Topic II: Reform and Enforcement in the 1560s
Seminar 4:
Presentation: ‘“The Religious Settlement settled little’. Does the 1560s bear this statement out?
Questions for discussion:
v How effectively was the Religious Settlement imposed in the first decade of Elizabeth’s reign?
v What were English Catholics doing in the 1560s?
Seminar Reading:
Aston, Margaret, England’s Iconoclasts: Laws Against Images (Oxford, 1988), pp. 294-342
Bearman, Robert, ‘The Early Reformation Experience in a Warwickshire Market Town: Stratford-upon-Avon,1530-1580’, Midland History, 32 (2007)
Bullett, Maggie, ‘The Reception of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement in Three Yorkshire Parishes, 1559-72’, Northern History, 48 (2011)
Byford, Mark, ‘The Birth of a Protestant Town: the priocess of Reformation in Tudor Colchester, 1530-1580’, in Patrick Collinson and John Craig, eds, The Reformation in English Towns 1500-1640 (Basingstoke, 1998)
Carlson, Eric, ‘Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies, 31 (1992).
Craig, John, Reformation, Politics and Polemics: The Growth of Protestantism in East Anglian Market Towns, 1500-1610 (Aldershot, 2001), chaps 3-5
Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New Haven and London, 1992), chap. 17
Duffy, Eamon The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (New Haven and London, 2001), chap. 7
Haigh, Christopher, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (Cambridge, 1975), chaps 14-16
Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford, 1993), chap. 14
Holmes, Peter, Resistance and compromise: the political thought of the Elizabethan Catholics (Cambridge, 1982), chap. 1
Houlbrooke, Ralph, Church Courts and the People during the English Reformation 1520-1570 (Oxford, 1979), 245-60
Houlbrooke, Ralph, ed., The Letter Book of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, Norfolk Record Society (1975)
Jones, Norman, The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Oxford, 1993), chaps 3, 5
Litzenberger, Caroline, ‘Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester, an Infidel in Religion?’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 25 (1994)
Litzenberger, Caroline, The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580 (Cambridge, 1997, chap. 6)
Litzenberger, Caroline, ‘The Coming of Protestantism to Elizabethan Tewkesbury’, in Patrick Collinson and John Craig, eds, The Reformation in English Towns 1500-1640 (Basingstoke, 1998)
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County 1500-1600 (Oxford, 1986), pp. 181-91.
Manning, Roger, Religion and Society in Elizabethan Sussex : a Study of the Enforcement of the Religious Settlement, 1558-1603 (Leicester, 1969), chap. 3
Marshall, Peter, The Face of the Pastoral Ministry in the East Riding, 1525-1595 (York, 1995)
O’Day, Rosemary, ‘Thomas Bentham: A Case Study in the Problems of the Early Elizabethan Episcopate’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 23 (1972)
O’Day, Rosemary, The English Clergy: The Emergence and Consolidation of a Profession 1558-1642 (Leicester, 1979)
Parish, Helen L., Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation (Aldershot, 2000), chap. 8
Usher, Brett, ‘New Wine into Old Bottles: The Doctrine and Structure of the Elizabethan Church’, in Susan Doran and Norman Jones, eds., The Elizabethan World (London, 2011)
Usher, Brett, William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577 (Aldershot, 2003)
Wenig, Scott, ‘The Reformation in the Diocese of Ely during the Episcopate of Richard Cox, 1559-77’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002)
Wooding, Lucy, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England (Oxford, 200), chaps 6-7
Seminar 5:
Documents:
‘Lord Keeper Bacon’s address at opening of Parliament, 1563’, EHD, pp. 150-2
‘Bishop of Worcester’s Letter to the Privy Council, 1564’, Mary Bateson, ed., ‘A Collection of Original Letters from the Bishops to the Privy Council, 1564’, in Camden Miscellany, Vol. 9 (Camden Society, ns, 53, London, 1895), pp. 1-8
‘Extract from Churchwardens’ Accounts of St Andrew Hubbard’, EHD, pp. 159-61
‘Bishop Bentham’s Injunctions for Coventry and Lichfield Diocese, 1565’, W. H. Frere and W. P. M. Kennedy, eds, Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Period of the Reformation, 3 vols, (London, 1910) , vol. 3, pp. 165-70
‘Extracts from York Visitation of 1567’, J. S. Purvis, ed., Tudor Parish Documents of the Diocese of York (Cambridge, 1948), pp. 15-34
‘Petition of English Catholics to the Council of Trent, 1562, and note of Spanish Ambassador’, Ginerva Crosignani, Thomas M. McCoog and Michael Questier, eds., Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England (Toronto, 2010), pp.3-8
‘Letter of Lawrence Vaux to friends in Lancashire, 1566’, Ginerva Crosignani, Thomas M. McCoog and Michael Questier, eds., Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England (Toronto, 2010), pp. 60-3