FF:AJ16055 Eng. Social History - Course Information

AJ16055 English Social History 1066 - 1707

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková, CSc., M.Litt. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek

Timetable

Thu 15:00–16:35 G22

Prerequisites

AJ09999 Qualifying Examination
Students may take English Social History I and II (AJ16055 and 16056) in any order or may take only one of them if they so choose.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

This course will try to show how the English people came to form a community and what kind of community it has been in its successive stages of development. Some theories of national culture and the relationship between nation, culture, and identity will be presented and dis-cussed. Englishness and some English myths will be explored while focusing on scenes of English life in significant periods of English history in chronological order. Some handouts will be based on such fiction that reflects the situation of the English people in a particular period. The materials will include a number of video extracts taken from older or recent films of British production.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction, requirements, assessment. Materials in e-learning. 2. Anglo-Saxon culture. Elements of national identity. 3. Feudal England, Norman Practice. Thomas Becket. 4. Crime and punishment, Parliament. Ethnic basis of national identity. 5. Hundred Years' War, Plague and revolt. 6. England in 1529: Church, State and Society. Social reform. 7. Social structure and social change. Education. 8. The fifth of November Remembered (Porter), Causes of the crisis. 9. The First Civil War. Commonwealth and Protectorate. 10.The ferment in ideas and society. Restoration Settlement. 11.English society after Restoration. Family I. 12. William of Orange. The Making of the Myth. Family II.

Literature

• Myths of the English. Edited by Roy Porter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, 276 s. ISBN 0745613063. info
• SMITH, Anthony D. National identity. 1st ed. London: Penguin books, 1991, 226 s. ISBN 0-14-012565-5. info
• MANNING, Brian Stuart. The English people and the English revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, 423 p. ; 2. ISBN 0-14-055137-932. info
• MORTON, A. L. A people's history of England. Edited by J. F. Horrabin. Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1965, 565 s. info
• ELIOT, T. S. Murder in the cathedral. Edited by Nevill Coghill. An Educational ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1965, 157 s. info
• BOLT, Robert. A man for all seasons :a play of Sir Thomas More. Edited by E. R. Wood. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1960, xxv, 118 s. ISBN 0-435-22100-0. info
• ABRAM, A. (Annie). English life and manners in the later middle ages. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1913, xv, 352 p. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Seminar; Assessment: seminar talks, contributions (20%), 4 written summaries for selected materials to be sent (20%), final essay /final test (60%).

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

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