Medieval Britain 1000-1485

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Contents 1 Lectures 1.1 Michaelmas Lectures 1.2 Hilary Lectures 1.3 Trinity Lectures 2 Tutorial work 3 Essay examples 4 Past Papers 5 Exam Revision Notes

Lectures

Michaelmas Lectures

• General introduction to the course
• England within the Danish Empire
• The Kingdom of the Scots
• The last days of Anglo-Saxon England
• 1066: A watershed in British history
• Effect of the Norman Conquest on the church
• The establishment of Norman rule in England
• The Norman settlement of England
• The sons of the Conqueror
• Norman England within its European context
• King Henry I
• Anselm and the Norman church
• King Stephen
• The Anglo-Norman era in Scotland
• The impact of the Normans on Wales
• Henry II and the law
• The crisis between secular and ecclesiastical authority : Henry II and Beckett
• The Angevin Empire
• Twelfth-century monasticism

Hilary Lectures

• Richard I and the Crusades
• King John and the church
• King John and Magna Carta
• English rural society in thireenth-century England
• The coming of the friars to Britain
• Henry III and the Barons' War
• Welsh political life in the thirteenth-century
• The Edwardian conquest of Wales
• The Scottish constitutional crisis of 1286
• Edward I and the Crown
• Urban England, 1300-1400
• The Scottish war of independence 1296-1328
• The crown and the development of parliament in the 13th and 14th centuries
• England and economic growth 1250-1316
• The Great European Famine to the Black Death 1316-1350
• Edward II
• The reign of Edward III
• England and the Hundred Years' War

Trinity Lectures

• England in 1381
• The reign of Richard II
• The English Church in the later Middle Ages
• Lollardy
• The Revolution of 1399
• England under the Lancastrian Kings
• Wars of the Roses part 1 : the onset of the wars
• Wars of the Roses part 2 : rise of the house of Tudor

Tutorial work

• To be added

Essay examples

• The Norman Conquest of England 1066: Massive or Minimal change?

submitted by Danny Quinn - 71%

• Was King Stephen's reign always going to feature a civil war? To what extent was Stephen's reign anarchic?

submitted by Felix Sherrington-Kendall - 50%

• Evaluate the governmental and political legacy of King Henry I.

submitted by Benjamin Rodger - 65%

• The Governmental and Political Legacy of Henry I

submitted by David Evans - 68%

Past Papers

Rough breakdown of the topics appearing over the past few years: download here.

Download: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Exam Revision Notes

• Selection of notes, various contributors

Including notes on: Anselm & church-state relations, Becket & church-state relations, Henry II & the Angevin empire, King Cnut, King John, Lollardy, the Norman conquest, the Peasants' Revolt 1381, Richard I and the Wars of the Roses.