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HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
History 211: Topic 6
War and Crisis; Lancaster and York
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History 211 First Page I
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Syllabus
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Required Paper
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Summer Syllabus I
Summer Requirements
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Identification
Items
While reading Chapters 7-8 of your
textbook, watch for
the following items. When you find the item in Chapter 7-8, identify
the object or person. Some items are more important than
others. On your exam, you will need to identify and discuss the
importance of the most important individuals or items.
Edward II, Piers Gaveston, Battle of Bannockburn, Hugh
Despenser, Edward
III (1327-1377), Roger Mortimer, Longbow, Battle of Crecy, Black Prince,
peers, primogeniture, John of Gaunt, Alice Perrers, Black Death, Peasant' Revolt (1381),
poll tax, Wat Tyler, John Wyclif, Statute of Provisors, Lollards, Geoffrey
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, William Langland, The Vision of Piers
Ploughman, Perpendicular Style, Robert Grosseteste, Robert Bacon,
William of Ockham,
Michael de la Pole, Robert de Vere, Merciless Parliament, Richard II
(1377-1399), Henry Boliingbroke, Lancastrian Rule, Owen Glendower, Sir Edmund
Mortimer, Beaufort Family, Henry V, Battle of Agincourt, Henry VI (1422-1461), Joan of
Arc, William de la Pole, Jack Cade, Margaret of Anjou, Richard (Duke of York), Battle
of Towton Moor, Inns of Court, putting-out system,
"yeoman", Eton, William Caxton,
Richard III, Battle of Bosworth Field. |
Topics for Study
The following essay
questions should be guides for your reading of Chapters 7-8. The
topics may suggest an idea for a research paper that would
increase your knowledge of the topic. The following essay questions will
be included on the First Exam. You will write two essays on the
first exam. You will choose your exam essays.
1. What started the
Hundred Years' War. What were the underlying causes of the
conflict? What advantages did each side have? Why were the
French finally able to remove the English presence in France almost
entirely?
2.
What is "bastard feudalism"? What caused the break-down of
orderly government in England during the fifteenth century? |
| Reading
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| Clayton Roberts,
David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson, Chapter 7-8 |
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