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ESSAYS on the REIGN OF EDWARD VI by David Loades
ISBN
978 1 85944 250 0 £22 Content:
1. Henry VIII’s Will and the formation of the Protectorate
2. The Religious
settlement; early moves towards Protestantism
3. Agrarian and Trade Problems
4. Protector Somerset and the Scottish Wars
5. Protector Somerset and the Privy Council
6. The Foreign Policy of the Protectorate
7.Printing and Publishing
8. The Prayer Book of 15499.
9. The Risings of 1548-4910.
10. The Coup of October 1549
11. The Struggle for Power,
October 1549- January 1550
12. Religious Opposition; the Princess Mary
13. Education, Charity and the Dissolution of the Chantries
14. The Foreign Policy of the Earl of Warwick
15. The Court and Council, 1550-1553
16. The Second Prayer Book
17. Religious
Radicalism
18.
Financial Reforms and Retrenchment
19. Overseas trade and Exploration
20. Northumberland and the Succession Crisis
Notes and Documents
ESSAYS on POLITICAL THEORY by G Taylor & A Bradstock
ISBN 978 1 85944 220 3
£22 Contents:
1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Thomas Aquinas
5. Machiavelli
6. Thomas More
7. John
Calvin
8. Robert Filmer
9. Thomas Hobbes
10. The Levellers
11. Gerard Winstanley
12. John Locke
13. Jean Jacques Rousseau
14. Edmund Burke
15. Adam Smith
16. Thomas Paine 17. William Godwin
18. Mary Wollstonecraft
19. John Stuart
Mill
20. Karl Marx
21. Michael Bakunin
22. Conclusion
Select Bibliography
ESSAYS on TUDOR ENGLAND by David Loades
ISBN
978 1 85944 179 4 £21
Contents:
1. To what extent, and why, had Henry VII succeeded
in securing his position as king by 1499.
2. Why was the Yorkist dynasty overthrown with such apparent ease in 1485?
3. How serious a threat to Henry VII were the pretenders
to the throne?
4.
What were the aims of the first two Tudors in their policies towards Scotland and how far were they successful in achieving
them?
5. Assess
the extent of continental influences on English intellectual life and culture in the first half of the sixteenth century.
6. Discuss the
reasons for and the extent of, anti-clericalism in England in the first half of the Sixteenth century?
7. In what ways & or what
reasons was the period 1475 –1550 a period of growing prosperity for the merchant classes?
8. Assess the importance
of the personal influence of Henry VIII in foreign and domestic policy 1509-1529
9. How significant were the changes in government in the
1530s?
10. How far did Thomas Cromwell succeed in creating a unified nation in the 1530s?
11. In what ways and for what reasons did the status
and authority of parliament in crease 1509-1558?
12. ‘Wolsey’s main concern was to retain power for himself, ad therefore he achieved little of
lasting significance’. How valid is this assessment? 13. To what extent did protestantism obtain a hold in England between
1529 and 1547?
14.
Discuss the causes and consequences to 1547 of the Dissolution of the monasteries.
15. Why was the resistance to religious change between
1533 and 1547 largely ineffective?
16. Assess the importance of Thomas Cranmer to the development of protestantism in England?
17. ‘The rule of Northumberland
was no improvement on that of Somerset, for neither of them governed England well’ Discuss the judgement.
18. How significant were the
popular uprisings of 1549?
19. ‘All was not failure in the reign of Mary I’ Discuss this judgement
20. Discuss the impact of English foreign policy
on domestic affairs during the reigns of Edward VI and Mary
21. Mary I’s religious policies were more realistic, more popular and more successful than those of
Somerset and Northumberland’. Examine the validity of this view.
22. ‘Her unpopularity was more the result of her marriage than
of her religion’ Discuss this verdict on Mary I
23. Discuss the effects to 1558 of the introduction of printing on the religious and intellectual life of
England
24
How far was Elizabeth I successful both in establishing and maintaining a religious settlement which accorded with her own
interests?
25.
‘Elizabethan England lived in terror of the tramp’ How serious the problem of vagabondage and how successfully
had it been tackled by 1603?
26. Why did Elizabeth I become involved in war with Spain in 1585 and why did the war last so long?
27. How successful was Elizabeth
I in imposing rule on Ireland?
28. How far and why did parliament become more difficult to manage in the reign of Elizabeth I
29. What problems faced Elizabeth
I in foreign relations to 1572 and how successfully did she handle them?
30. To what extent and in what ways did the role of the nobility in
English government change the sixteenth century?
ESSAYS in EUROPEAN HISTORY 1453-1648 (Vol. I) by David Loades
ISBN 978 1 85944 184 8 £21
(This volume contains 40 photocopiable
essays on the topics in volume I.)
Contents:
1. Europe in 1453
2.Economic and Political Economy
3.The Legacy of the Hundred Years War
4.Humanism and Intellectual Curiosity
5 From Burgundy to The Netherlands
6.How Absolute was Francis I?
7. The Constitution
of the Holy Roman Empire
8.The Habsburg-Valois Wars
9.Spain
from Ferdinand to Isabella
10.Islam and Christendom
11.The
Pre-Reformation Church
12.Martin
Luther and his protest
13.The Spread
of Lutheranism
14. The Swiss and South German Reformers
15. Anabaptist and other Radicals
16. The Catholic
Reformation before Trent
17. Exploration and Overseas Trade
18. Money and People: financial & demographic problems
19. The End of the Wars, 1545-1559
20. The France of Henry II
21. The Council of Trent
22. Portugal, Spain,
and the New World
23. Cateau-Cambrésis and it consequences
24. The Rise of Calvinism
25. The Jesuits
and the Counter Reformation
26. The French Civil Wars to 1572
27. The First Phase of the Revolt of The Netherlands
28. Civil Wars and Settlement in France, 1572-1598
29. The Creation of the United Provinces
30. Spain as an Imperial
Power
31. The Empire and the background to the Thirty Years War
32. The Scandanavian Intervention
33. The France
of Henry IV and Richelieu
34. France and the Thirty Years War
35. The Treaties of Westphalia
Suggested Reading
ESSAYS in EUROPEAN HISTORY 1453-1648 (Vol. II) by David Loades
ISBN 978 1 85944 255 5 £21
Contents:
1. Explain
the changing fortunes during the reigns of Philip the good and Chalres the Bold
2. By what means and to what extent did
the Renaissance of the late 15 and the early 16th centuries spread from Italy to other European countries?
3. How far was the Italian Renaissance during the period 145-1550 secular rather than
religious?
4. To what extent was the power of the French Kings,1461-1547 limited by the nobility?
5. How fully did
Ferdinand and Isabella achieve their aims?
6. Compare and contrast the methods and success of Portugal and Spain in developing
overseas empires in the late fifteen and sixteenth centuries?
7. In what ways and to what extent did the Valois Kings
of the period 1483-1515 lay the foundations of a stable and unified French State?
8. Was Lutheranism primarily a theological
process?
9. Assess the significance for the reformation of either the Anabaptists or Ulrich Zwingli?
10. To what
extent can the France of Francis I be described as a nation-state?
11. Explain the reasons for, and effect of, the increase
in population in continental Europe in the first half of the sixteenth century.
12. Assess the important of printing
as a force for change in the sixteenth century.
13. Why, and with what consequences for the Reformation, did many German
Princes support Lutheranism.
14. What were the consequences for Spain of the election of Charles I as Holy Roman Emperor
in 1519?
15. How far did Francis I neglect the interests of France to pursue a policy of aggrandisement abroad?
16.
Assess the effects of inflation on different social groups during the sixteenth century.
17. Why did Spain remain a Roman
Catholic country during the reign of Charles I?
18. Discuss the view that there would not have been a significant Catholic
reform movement in the sixteenth century without the challenge of protestantism.
19. How real was the threat to Western
and Central Europe from the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sulieman the Magnificent?
20. To what
extent had Calvinism supplanted Lutheranism as the dynamic force for the Reformation by the middle of the sixteenth century?
21. Estimate the importance of overseas expansion/colonisation for the economic and social life of Sixteenth century Europe
22. How substantial were the achievements of Ivan the Terrible?
23. What do the summoning and the decisions of the
Council of Trent tell us about the state of the Roman Catholic Church in the mid-sixteenth century?
24. Explain the reasons
for, and the effects of, the development of banking in sixteenth century Europe.
25. For whom, and for what reasons,
was the Peace of Augsburg (1555) a victory?
26. Why did Antwerp benefit more than Venice from the changes in the pattern
of trade in the sixteenth century?
27. Why did civil war break out in France so soon after the death of Henry II in 1559?
28 To what extent were French Civil wars about Religion?
29. Why was Spain unable to crush the Dutch revolt?
30. Assess the importance of the House of Orange to the Revolt of the Netherlands between 1563 and 1609
31. Why was Henry IV more successful than Catherine de Medici in controlling the forces which threatened disorder in France?
32. How far can Philip II’s foreign policy be explained san attempt to defend the catholic faith against protestant
and Muslim forces?
33. Why, despite important of bullion from the New World, did Philip II often find himself in financial
difficulty?
34. Why did the economy of the Northern Provinces of The Netherlands remain strong in the years to 1609,
in spite of the wars of independence?
35. Was Spain in steep decline in the early seventeenth century?
36. ‘Gustavus
Adolphus gave Sweden a greatness which it could not sustain’. Discuss this assessment.
37. To what extent were
the policies of Richelieu and Mazarin dominated by their wish to break the Habsburg encirclement of France?
38 ‘The
most important turning point in the Thirty Years War’ Do you agree with this assessment of the Edict of Restitution
(1629)?
39. Discuss the claim that the basis of the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century was observation.
40. What issues were settled by the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)?
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ESSAYS ON THE NORTHERN RENIAISSANCE by David Loades
ISBN 978
1 85944 260 9 (Only available as a loose leaf file) £35 plus £2
for a pdf
Contents:
1. The Italian genesis of the Renaissance: distinctiveness of the Northern Movement
2. The German humanists and the development of printing
3. The transition from late Gothic
to renaissance art in Germany: Altdorfer, Cranach, Grünewald
4. The Biblical humanists: Erasmus, Colet, Melanchthon
5. Albrecht Dürer; art,
piety and reform
6. Spiritual extremism & individuality in The Netherlands; painting from Van Eyck to Bruegel
7. Courtly pageantry and spectacle: Italian & Burgundian models.
8. The Court Painter: Hans Holbein
and his circle
9.
Renaissance education;
the theory and the practice
10. The architecture of the Northern Renaissance: military, public and vernacular
11. Mannerism: the international art style of the late sixteenth century
12. Renaissance science in Northern
Europe – a false start?
13. Politics, trade and culture in The Netherlands, 1560-1660
14. Dutch & Flemish painting: Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt.
15. The culture of the court of Elizabeth
16. The Renaissance sense of History and the Historians
17. The Court of Charles I elegance and detachment
18. The expanding world: cartography & exploration from England & The Netherlands
19. Protestant Political thought:
law & resistance
20. The achievement of the Northern Renaissance & its contribution to later history
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