WARS OF RELIGION

 

 

 

THURSDAY, NOV 4

 

TOPIC:  Review Dutch Independence and Introduction to the French Wars of Religion

 

THE SPANISH ROAD

This was the name given to the 700 mile-long overland route that the Spanish were forced to use in order to supply their army fighting in the Netherlands. There was little alternative because Dutch rebels – called Sea Beggars – effectively ran a blockade of ships along the coast of the Netherlands and parts of France so that the Spanish could not easily supply their troops by sea 

 

HW:  Go to iTunes.  Go to the iTunes store.  In the search box, enter this phrase: Stuff You Missed in History Catherine de Medici.  You will be redirected to two podcasts about Catherine de Medici.  You might have to scroll through the other podcasts to find them.  The first, called Italian Orphan is about Catherine's childhood and upbringing... really interesting story... listen if you would like. The second is important to our story and is called The Scarlet Nuptuals.  Download this podcast.  Listen to it.  Try to follow the general story of the French Wars of Religion, this will be difficult!  Pay attention to the characters.  Pay attention to the religious and politcal motives for their actions.  The list of kings below might be helpful.

 

If you cannot access the podcast... print and read this reading. (It might look messy, but the text should be complete)  Catherine de Medici Saint or Sinner

 

 

FRENCH KINGS

•Francis I (r. Jan 1515 – March 1547)

•Henry II (r. 1547 – July 1559)

•Francis II (r. 1559 – Dec 1560)*

•Charles IX (r. 1560 – May 1574)*

•Henry III (r. 1574 – August 1589)*

•Henry IV (r. 1589 – May 1610) "Paris is worth a mass"

•Louis XIII (1610 – May 1643)

 

* influenced by their mother, Catherine de Medici

 

FRIDAY, NOV 5

 

TOPIC:  French Wars of Religion BABY!!!!!!!

 

Discussion: French Wars of Religion.

 

The Struggle of the Three Henrys"

WINNER = Henry Navarre ! (a.k.a. King Henry IV of France)

 

Strictly for those with a morbid obsession with how historic figures died.... 

Recent discovery:  The mummified head of Henry IV!

 

 

Overview of Elizabethan and Stuart England. 

 

HW:  Read the Elizabethan England Packet.  Carefully gloss and take margin notes.

 

If you are interested.... SATURDAY IS AN IMPORTANT DAY IN ENGLAND!!!

"Remember, remember the 5th of November...."

LINK TO GUY FAWKES ONLINE GAME!

 

 

MONDAY, NOV 7

 

TOPIC:  Elizabethan England

 

Tudor and Stuart Timeline

 

Henry VII

Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)

Edward VI (1547-1553)

Mari I (r. 1553-1558)

Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603)

James I (r. 1603-1625)

Charles I (r. 1625-1649)

Oliver Cromwell (1649-1658)

Charles II (r. 1660-1685)

James II (r. 1685-1688)

William & Mary (1688 GLORIOUS REVOLUTION)

 

Review and conclusion of the French Wars of Religion.  FOCUS ON: "Paris is worth a mass." and the Edict of Nantes

 

Highlights of the Elizabethan England Reading 

~ the religious "settlement"

~ problems with Mary Queen of Scots

~ defeat of the Spanish Armada

 

 

FINDING LEGITMATE SOURCES ONLINE: BECOMING HEALTHY CONSUMERS OF INFORMATION

 

1.  Video/Audio

     Youtube can be a blessing or a curse, Google metasearch

     Look not only at the person who uploaded video, but also the creator (BBC videos vs. student projects)

     Segments and excerpts vs. complete videos

 

2.  Websites

     Any idiot can build their own website... take me for example

     .edu sites are best, but BBC, PBS are good sources

      Websites do not provide real intellectual nourishment, they are junk food and empty calories.  Fun to  

      snack on, but not a good diet. 

     Books are nutritional.  They are meaty. They provide the complexity and analysis that limited webspace

     cannot afford.  Consider the process of pbulishing a book vs. the process of building a website.

 

3.  Online publications, periodicals, articles

     Probably the best online source, Google Scholar search

     Consider the author, look for people with credentials

     History journals can be overwhelming or overly specific

     Worth your time to scan for useful information  

 

EAT HEALTHY!!  CONSUME NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION.  AVOID JUNK FOODS!!  BUT... JUST FOR FUN,  IT'S OKAY ONE IN A WHILE TO ENJOY A SNACK. 

 

 

 

HW: Study by using the timeline to review major events.  Make sure to note the interconnectedness of the events. 

 

Find and "consume" a legitimate online source of information about the Defeat of the Spanish Armada (DUE THURSDAY)

 

TUESDAY, NOV 8

 

NO SCHOOL:  ELECTION DAY 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOV 9 

 

MCCAULEY ABSENT, HI Q

 

VIDEO:  The Two Queens:  Mary and Elizabeth

 

Complete video viewing guide.

 

HW:  Continue adding important information to the timeline.

 

"Digest" your online source about the Spanish Armada.    Write a short summary of what your online source taught you about the Spanish Armada.  Did it satisfy your hunger for the who, what, when, where and why of the event?  Did it have a distinct flavor, was it spicy with a certain point of view?  Did it leave you hungry for more? 

 

THURSDAY, NOV 10

 

TOPIC:  The Stuart Monarchs:  James I as the model Stuart monarch

 

• How can it be argued that Mary Queen of Scots won the feud with Elizabeth I?
• Describe why Philip II launched the Spanish Armada.  What is the significance of its defeat?
• How is James I a model for the Stuart monarchs?

 

OPENER:  The Spanish Armada: Small group discussions.

 

What were James's problems?  PERSONAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS

 

James I True Law of Free Monarchy.pdf

 

 

HW:  Kagan reading 451-457.  Add information to the chart you started in class (add a column for Charles I).  Stop at Oliver Cromwell.

 

 

FRIDAY, NOV 11 

 

TOPIC:  The Steps leading to English Civil War

 

 

 

(If you like this flow chart... check out this link to FLOW OF HISTORY)

 

IN CLASS: Step by step, cause effect, analysis of the steps leading to the outbreak of the English Civil War.

 

 

HW:  Read "Choosing Sides." Print.  Choosing Sides in the English Civil War.doc

 

Broken Contract.pdf IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING ME TO DISCUSS AN INTERESTING TOPIC AFTER SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY, THIS IS THE ARTICLE (Broken Contract) THAT WILL FACILITATE OUR DISCUSSION.  CLICK ON THE PDF LINK.  IT WILL OPEN A NEW PAGE WITH A "donwload" TAB.  IF YOU CLICK THAT TAB, IT SHOULD OPEN AS A READABLE PDF IN YOUR BROWSER.

 

 

MONDAY, NOV 14 

 

 

TOPIC:  The War and the Rise of Cromwell

 

• Describe the "sides" of the English Civil War.  Consider political, religious, and socie-economic leanings.
• How did Pride's Purge radicalize the revolution?
• Who were the Levellers and Diggers.  How did they represent a truly radical element in English society?  Why were they crushed by Cromwell?

 

INTRO:  Discussion about HW reading.  Who was on which side of the English Civil War?

 

MINI LECTURE FOCUS ON "Pride's Purge"  What was it and why is it important to our western understanding of political revolutions:  VOCABULARY:  Pride's Purge, "Rump Parliament," Drogheda, New Model Army

 

The Real Radicals.... HANDOUT (on back of Civli War Timeline)

 

the Levellers

 

The Levellers were a 17th-century English political group. During the English Revolution pushed the Levellers for an extention of the right to vote and also government reforms based on undeniable individual rights and the principle of governmental power based upon public mandate. The Levellers first figured as a distinct group in 1647, during the conflict between King Charles I and Parliament. The Levellers enjoyed wide-spread support in the army. Headed by political agitator John Lilburne, the Levellers presented to their commander a petition, The Case of the Armie Truly Stated, calling

for the dissolution of Parliament and for changes in the structure of future parliaments. In the same year, Levellers in several regiments ordered to Ireland mutinied on the ground that no soldier should serve abroad without his consent. The movement was suppressed in 1653, and the political influence of the group faded.

 

Known by their emblem, a sea-green ribbon, the Levellers anticipated the philosophical ideas of the American Revolution in many respects. Their philosophy, expressed in a pamphlet by Lilburne, The Foundations of Freedom, or an Agreement of the People, was presented to Parliament in 1649. The philosophy had three principal tenets: the existence of certain inalterable rights of man beyond the jurisdiction of any government; the idea that governmental authority derived from the people; and the doctrine of separation of powers, directed especially against the contention that the Law makers should be Law executors. The Levellers advocated a representative assembly to meet biannually, based on a redistribution of seats according to density of population, and with the franchise extending to all Englishmen 21 years of age or over and wealthy enough to be "housekeepers". They also urged abolition of capital punishment for all crimes except murder. The Levellers are sometimes confused with the Diggers, a strongly religious and pacifist group that advocated the abolition of private ownership of land.

 

 

the Diggers

 

A Religious Pacifist group for Political reform in England in 1649 Diggers, members of a communistic movement that flourished during the English Commonwealth (1649-60) and favored the abolition of private ownership of land. The Diggers were deeply religious pacifists, and their doctrines were social and economic, not political. They are often incorrectly identified with the Levellers, whose program was chiefly political.

 

In April 1649 a band of about 40 Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard, began to dig uncultivated common land on Saint George's Hill in Cobham, Surrey. They worked for a week and erected tents for dwellings; as they prepared to cultivate a second hill, they were dispersed by government troops. Everard and Winstanley were arrested, tried, and sentenced to pay large fines. Despite government opposition to the experiment, the Cobham colony lasted until 1651. The Diggers founded other colonies, none of which endured.

 

Winstanley wrote several pamphlets explaining the principles of the Diggers. Although he was devoutly Christian, he was against organized religion and the clergy, claiming that they supported the class structure of society. His last work, The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652),explains his theory of a social system founded on communistic principles. The Digger movement was one of the influences leading to the development of 19th-century radical thought in Great Britain and of modern socialism.

 

VIDEO:  History of Britain (20 mins.)  Cromwell handled the Levellers and the Irish.

 

HW:  Kagan 457-461 (stop at "Glorious Revolution")

 

Add this week's events to the timeline.

 

Broken Contract.pdf IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING ME TO DISCUSS AN INTERESTING TOPIC AFTER SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY, THIS IS THE ARTICLE (Broken Contract) THAT WILL FACILITATE OUR DISCUSSION.  CLICK ON THE PDF LINK.  IT WILL OPEN A NEW PAGE WITH A "donwload" TAB.  IF YOU CLICK THAT TAB, IT SHOULD OPEN AS A READABLE PDF IN YOUR BROWSER.

 

 

TUESDAY, NOV 15

 

TOPIC:  Cromwell's Puritan "Republic"

 

• Evaluate Cromwell's rule of the Commonwealth.
• For what reasons was Charles II restored to the throne of England?
• For what reasons did James II become unpopular?

 

 

Finish Video:  BBC History of Britain: Revolutions

 

Overview of Charles II and James II

 

Personal, Religious, Political, Economic, International issues (remember the model Stuart monarch)

 

If you wnat further depth or clarification... Online reading: Charles II and the Restoration

 

HW:  Study everything up to now... be sure you are caught up with your reading.

 

WEDNESDAY, NOV 16

 

TOPIC:  THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

 

 

• What motivated William to take the throne of England?
• What impact did the Glorious Revolution have on England?

 

HANDOUT:  WILLIAM III and his impact on the Glorious Revolution.  (SOURCE:  WILLIAM III)

 

If you want further depth or clarification... take a gander at the BBC website: THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

 

ANIMATION OF BONNIE PRINCE CHARLES 

 

HW:   Kagan 438-445:  The Thirty Years War  (you can start tonight, but it is officially due on Friday)

 

 

DISCUSSION AFTER SCHOOL TODAY.  WE WILL DISCUSS THE ARTICAL AND INITIAL REACTIONS TO THIS THESIS: 

 

In contemporary Western society, the financial institution, comprised of multinational corporations and investment banks, has become the dominant institution of the age.  This institution commands authority that transcends national borders and often trumps that of sovereign governments.  Its influence manages to guide the daily actions of individuals living within its grasp.  In these ways, modern financial institutions resemble the hegemony and influence of the institution of the Catholic Church in pre-reformation Europe. The current European debt crisis and the global recession could create fertile ground for a "reformation" of the modern financial institution. 

 

THURSDAY, NOV 17

 

TOPIC:  Introduction to the grand-daddy of the wars of religion... THE THIRTY YEARS WAR

 

 

 

HW:  Kagan 438-445:  The Thirty Years War  

 

 

FRIDAY, NOV 18

 

TOPIC:  The Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia.

 

Review of Four Stages of War:  Why did each power enter the war?

 

How does the war represent changing motivation in foreign policy.

 

Were the wars of religion really about religion to begin with?

 

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 

 

TOPIC:  Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes 

 

HANDOUT:  Thomas Hobbes

 

Read the introduction to Hobbes and the primary source excerpt. 

Discussion:  What makes Hobbes different/important?

 

Overview of impact of major political philosophers on board

 

HW:  Continue working on TIMELINE.  You should have England, France, and Spain finished by THURSDAY.

 

WEDNESDAY, NOV 16

 

TOPIC:  Analysis of poltical philosophy: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

 

Kreeft lecture.  Use PART 4 of the handout from yesterday to keep track of the lecture. ASK QUESTIONS! 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, NOV 17 

 

TOPIC:  Introduction to Thirty Years War

 

Catching up with France... LOUIS XIII

Kagan 463-465

Coffin 515-517

 

Powerpoint Notes:  THIRTY YEARS WAR

 

 

HW:  Add new information (France and HRE) to timeline