Everyday Life in Elizabethan England 3301-KB247
The goal of the course is to provide insight into various aspects of everyday life in Elizabethan England. The study of primary sources and iconography from the 16th and 17th centuries offers students an opportunity to become familiar with the following subjects:
1. Social Structure.
2. Religion.
3. Elizabethan Costume and Fashion.
4. Life in London.
5. Theatre and Entertainment.
6. Health and Medicine.
7. Food and Cooking.
8. Education.
9. Family Life.
10. Magic and Witchcraft.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Having finished the course students:
a) have basic knowledge of the everyday life in Elizabethan England,
b) have a basic ability to analyse and understand source texts concerning the history of the everyday.
Education at language level B2+. In class discussions students acquire skills of expressing their thoughts in a clear, coherent, logical and precise manner, with the use of language which is correct grammatically, lexically and phonetically.
Assessment criteria
The final grade depends on:
- attendance (three absences are allowed),
- active participation in class discussions throughout the course,
- quality of the term paper on the subject chosen by students.
The form and criteria of obtaining the final grade may be changed depending on current pandemic conditions.
Bibliography
Zbiory tekstów źródłowych:
Aughterson, Kate (ed.). The English Renaissance. An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Routledge. London & New York. 2002.
Cressy, David, Ferrell, Lori Anne (eds.). Religion and Society in Early Modern England. A Sourcebook. Routledge. London & New York. 1996.
Pritchard, R. E. (ed.). Shakespeare's England. Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times. Stroud. 1999.
Wybrane opracowania:
Abbot, Mary. Life Cycles in England 1560-1720. Cradle to Grave. Routledge. London & New York. 1996.
Beier, A. L., Finlay, Roger (eds.). London 1500-1700. The Making of the Metropolis. Longman. London & New York. 1986.
Byrne, Muriel St. Clare. Życie codzienne w Anglii elżbietańskiej. Przeł. Anna Staniewska. PIW. Warszawa. 1971.
Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580. Yale University Press. New Haven & London. 1992.
Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph. England Under the Tudors. Routledge. London & New York. 1996.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642. CUP. Cambridge. 1992.
Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1993.
Hutton, Ronald. The Rise and Fall of Merry England. The Ritual Year 1400-1700. OUP. Oxford and New York. 1996.
Jewell, Helen M. Education in Early Modern England. St. Martin's Press. New York. MacMillan Press. Houndmills. 1998.
Morill, John (ed.). The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart England. OUP. Oxford and New York. 1996.
O'Day, Rosemary. The Tudor Age. Longman. London and New York. 1995.
Rowse, Alfred Leslie. The Elizabethan Age. Macmillan. London. 1962.
Sharpe, James Anthony. Witchcraft in Early Modern England. Longman/Pearson Education Ltd. Harlow. 2001.
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800. Penguin Books. London. 1990.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1973.
Wear, Andrew. Health and Healing in Early Modern England: Studies in Social and Intellectual History. Ashgate. Aldershot. 1998.
Wilson, Frank Percy. The Plague in Shakespeare's London. OUP. London. 1963.
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