Medieval History
Autumn 2010
The courses at a glance:
Introduction to Late Anglo-Saxon England Part 1
Introduction to Late Anglo-Saxon England Part 2
William I to Edward I: English History 1066 - 1307
From Edward II to Richard III: English History 1307 - 1485
Introduction to Late Anglo-Saxon England Part 1
Damian Tyler
This introductory course uses a variety of source materials to shed light on a transformational period in English history. Topics covered include the English kingdoms on the eve of the first Viking Age, the Viking wars and the collapse of Northumbria, East Anglia and Mercia, West Saxon resistance and King Alfred, and Edward the Elder and the expansion of Wessex in the early tenth century.
Recommended Reading:
Sources
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in Swanton, M. ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Phoinix Press 2000.
Asser’s Life of Alfred, Harmondsworth, 1983.
Secondary Works
Campbell, J. ed., The Anglo-Saxons. Penguin 1991
Stenton, F. M., Anglo-Saxon England.OUP 2001
Day: Friday Time: 11 am -1 pm
5 sessions, starting 21 January 2011 - 18 February 2011
Venue:
Vestry Room,
St Peter’s House,
Oxford Road
(Precinct Centre),
Manchester,
M13 9GH
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
|---|---|---|---|
£40 |
n/a |
8 |
15 |
Please send your bookings to:
Dr Damian J. Tyler, 63 Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 6WD
Email: dagoberht@hotmail.com
Introduction to Late Anglo-Saxon England Part 2
This course examines the final phase of Anglo-Saxon history, when the late Old English state reached its peak of development. Topics covered include the ‘reconquest’ of the Danelaw and the unification of England, the Viking Kingdom of York and the problem of the North, St Dunstan and tenth-century monastic reform, Æthelræd II ‘Unræd’ and the second Viking Age, Canute’s Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, Edward ‘the Confessor,’ and Harold II and the Battle of Hastings. This course following on from Introduction to Late Anglo-Saxon England Part 1 but can be studied separately.
Recommended reading:
Sources
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in Swanton, M. ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Phoinix Press 2000.
Secondary Works
Campbell, J. ed., The Anglo-Saxons. Penguin 1991
Stenton, F. M., Anglo-Saxon England.OUP 2001
Higham, N. J., The Death of Anglo-Saxon England, Stroud, (1997)
Day: Friday Time: 11 am -1 pm
5 sessions, starting 4 March 2011 - 1st April 2011
Venue:
Vestry Room,
St Peter’s House,
Oxford Road
(Precinct Centre),
Manchester,
M13 9GH
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
|---|---|---|---|
£40 |
n/a |
8 |
15 |
Please send your bookings to:
Dr Damian J. Tyler, 63 Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 6WD
Email: dagoberht@hotmail.com
William I to Edward I: English History 1066 - 1307
This introductory level course examines the England of the Norman and Angevin dynasties. Topics covered include William of Normandy, the Norman conquest and Domesday Book; disputed succession, - King Stephen, Empress Matilda and ‘the Anarchy;’ Henry II and the ‘Angevin Empire,’ King John and Magna Carta, Henry III, the barons and the origins of Parliament and Edward I, Wales and Scotland.
Recommended reading:
Barlow, F, The Feudal Kingdom of England - 1042 - 1216, London, 1961
R. Bartlett, England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075 - 1225, Oxford University Press, 2002
A Harding, England in the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Day: Wednesday Time: 1-3 pm
5 sessions, starting 19 January 2011 - 16 February 2011
Venue:
Vestry Room,
St Peter’s House,
Oxford Road
(Precinct Centre),
Manchester,
M13 9GH
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
|---|---|---|---|
£40 |
n/a |
8 |
15 |
Please send your bookings to:
Dr Damian J. Tyler, 63 Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 6WD
Email: dagoberht@hotmail.com
From Edward II to Richard III: English History 1307 - 1485
This introductory level course focuses on the political history of the England in the later Middle Ages. Topics covered include the Scots Wars of Independence, the depositions of Edward I and Richard II, the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
Recommended reading:
McKisack, M., The Fourteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Pollard, A. J., Late Medieval Engand 1399 – 1509, Longman, 2000.
Carpenter, C., The Wars of the Roses, y, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Day: Wednesday Time: 1-3 pm
5 sessions, starting 2nd March 2011 - 30 March 2011
Venue:
Vestry Room,
St Peter’s House,
Oxford Road
(Precinct Centre),
Manchester,
M13 9GH
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
|---|---|---|---|
£40 |
n/a |
8 |
15 |
Please send your bookings to:
Dr Damian J. Tyler, 63 Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 6WD
Email: dagoberht@hotmail.com
Before Scotland (300-800AD)
Over the course of five weeks we will explore the roots of Scotland as a unified kingdom, starting with the rise of the Pictish kingdoms and the ‘coming of the Irish/Scots’ in the West and the rise and fall of the southern kingdoms of Strathclyde and Northumbria up to unification attempts of Scotland in the face of the Viking raids and invasions of the 9th century, ending with the rise of the dynasty of Kenneth MacAlpine, as kings of a (not so) unified Scotland.
We are going to combine the evidence both of recent historical and archaeological findings and review how they have changed our perception of the traditional story.
Recommended Reading:
J.E.Fraser, From Caledonia to Pictland. Scotland to 795. New Edinburgh History of Scotland (2009)
S.M.Foster, Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland (1996).
Day: Thursday Time: 2-4 pm
5 sessions, starting January 27, 2011, no lecture Feb 17th 2011
Venue:
Cross Street Chapel
Cross Street
Manchester
M2 1NL
Price |
Concessions |
Minimum No. |
Maximum No. |
£45 |
n/a |
12 |
40 |
Send bookings to:
Birgitta Hoffmann
55 Broadwalk, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5PL