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      1. Early and Mediaeval English History (to 1066)
      2. English History Survey to 1689 (2YUCorr)
      3. English History Survey ( to 1485)
      4. English History Survey (3-year programme)
      5. Mediaeval English History (1066 to 1485)
      6. 17th-century American History
      7. 18th-century American History
      8. Witchcraft in the Old and New Worlds
      9. Introduction to American Studies
      10. The Founding Fathers and the Constitution

17th-Century American History— [up]

Course Description: The course is a lecture series, giving a chronological survey of the history of the United States from the beginnings to the Salem witchcraft craze, with special emphasis on the beginnings and development of New England. At the end of the course the participants will have to pass an oral examination. The topics to be discussed will include: The natives and the "discoverers" of North America (Tyrkir, Stephen Parmenius of Buda) * Capt. John Smith and Virginia * The Pilgrims — Bradford and New Plymouth * Salem & Boston (Endicott & Winthrop) * Religion and the colonies * Covenants and foundations * Captivities (Mary Rowlandson) * Witches, Heretics, Criminals * Prospects and Problems.
Prerequisites: JATE Academic English I, or double English and American Studies major.
Assignments, grading (%), textbooks: Participants will take an oral examination at the end of the term.

The textbooks for the course will include various US histories:
  • Clarence Ver Steeg: The Formative Years 1607-1763. Hill and Wang, New York, 1983.
  • Richard Middleton, Colonial America. A History, 1607-1760. Blackwell, Oxford, 1992.
  • Daniel Boorstin: Az amerikaiak. A gyarmatosítás kora. Budapest, Gondolat, 1991.
  • Hoffee (ed): Early American History. Garland, New York, London, 1988. [several volumes containing selected articles]
  • Tamás Magyarics—Tibor Frank, Handouts for U.S. History. A Study Guide and Workbook. Panem—McGraw-Hill, Budapest, 1995.
  • Bailyn et alia: The Great Republic. A History of the American People. 2 vols. Heath: lexington, MA, Toronto, 1992. [I:1-149]
  • Hugh Brogan, The Pelican History of the United States of America (Penguin, 1987)
  • Gombos Gyula, Szabadságalapítók (A plymouthiakról). Püski, New York, 1989.
  • S.E. Morison, The Oxford History of the United States of America. OUP
  • S.E. Morison et alia: The Growth of the American Republic. OUP [pp. -86.]

 

John Winthrop

 

Statue of Anne Hutchinson, Boston

+ H.S. Commager's Documents of American History, Vol. I., especially documents Nos.
4 (Letters patent to John Cabot, 1496)
5 (Charter to Sir Walter Ralegh, 1584)
6 (First Charter of Virginia, 1606)
7 (Second Charter of Virginia, 1609)
8 (Third Charter of Virginia, 1612)
9 (Ordinance for Virginia, 1621)
10 (Leyden Agreement, 1618)
11 (Mayflower Compact, 1620)
12 (First Charter of Massachusetts, 1629)
13 (Cambridge Agreement, 1629)
16 (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639)
17 (Plantation Agreement at Providence, 1640)
21 (Cambridge Platform, 1648)
22 (Maryland Toleration Act, 1649)

Plus other texts like

Other, optional suggested readings will include the following:

  • David B. Quinn, "Budai Parmenius István, az első magyar utazó Észak-Amerikában." In: Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények 1974, 203-210.
  • Klaniczay Tibor: "Jegyzetek Budai Parmenius Istvánról." In: K.T., Hagyományok ébresztése (Budapest: Szépirodalmi, 1976), 225-241.
  • Kupperman, "American Climate in the Early Colonial Period". American Historical Review, December 1982. 1262-1289.
  • Stannard, "Death and Dying in Puritan England". AHS, December 1973. 1305-1330.
  • Morgan, "Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-1618". AHS, June 1971. 595-611.
  • Brown, B.K., "Freemanship in Puritan Massachusetts". AHS, July 1954. 865-883.
  • Norton, "The Evolution of White Women's Experience in Early America". AHS, June 1984. 593-619.
  • Campbell, M., "English Emigration on the Eve of the American Revolution". AHS, October 1955.
  • Freehling, "The Founding Fathers and Slavery". AHS, February 1972. 81-93.
  • Hackney, "Southern Violence". AHS, February 1969. 906-925.
  • Pole, "Historians and the Problem of Early American Democracy". AHS, April, 1962. 626-646.
  • Butler, Jon, "Magic, Mythology and the Early American Religious Heritage". AHS, April 1979. 317-346.

 

Early and Mediaeval English History (To 1066) — [up]

Course Description: The course offers a chronological survey of the mediaeval history of the peoples of the British isles from the earliest times to the battle of Hastings. The political, economic, social, intellectual aspects of the period will be discussed as well. The participants will become familiar with the most important events and developments of early English history and they will study some of the essential sources and documents pertaining to the period. The topics discussed will include - Prehistory of Britain; from Paleolithic to Neolithic; - henges, stone circles, Stonehenge - The Celts in Britain - Roman Britain - Gildas: De excidio Britanni'; - Early Anglo-Saxon Britain; the Heptarchy - Kent in the 6-7th centuries - Mercia and Northumbria in the 7-8th centuries - Northumbian hegemony in the 8th century; Offa - Wessex in the 9-10th century; Alfred - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - The Vikings; raids and settlements; the Great Danish Army; Danelag & Danegeld - The Advent of the Normans.
Prerequisites: JATE Academic English I.
Assignments, grading (%), textbooks: Participants will take an oral examination at the end of the term.

Recommended textbooks will include:

Morgan, Kenneth O.(ed.), The Oxford History of Britain. OUP, Oxford & New York,1993., or the same with pictures: Morgan, K.O.(ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. OUP, Oxford & New York,˙1992 [1984].
Morton, A.L., A People's History of England. several editions [1938].
From the Oxford History of England (Reading Room, Central Univ.Lib.): R.G. Collingwood & J.N.L. Myres, Roman Britain and the English Settlements; F.M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England.
From the Pelican History of England: 1. Richmond, I., Roman Britain; 2. Whitelock, D., The Beginnings of English Society (from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion).
Historia Brittonum Part I * Part II
The Life of King Alfred by Asser
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram's translation — Gutenberg)

Varga Vanda Éva (ed.): A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Documenta Historica 18. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1994.; Jójárt Júlia—Varga Vanda Éva (eds), A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Második, átdolgozott kiadás. Documenta Historica 34. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1998.
Rimaszombati Károly (ed.): Vikingek az Angolszász Krónikában. Documenta Historica 31. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1997.
Novák Veronika (ed.): Gildas: Britannia romlásáról. A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Documenta Historica 32. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1997.

 

Medieval English History (1066-1485) — [up]

Course Description: The course is a lecture series on four crucial centuries of English history, of England gradually finding herself on an island, with special emphasis on various important sources, events and persons. The topics discussed will include the Normans, Doomsday Book; English feudalism; Anarchy; Plantagenet expansion; Common Law; Heraldry; Plantagenet disaster, Magna Carta; beginnings of Parliament; Celtic troubles; Regicides; the Black Death and after; the Hundred Years' War; the War of the Roses; English architecture.
Assignments, grading (%), textbooks: The course will be concluded with an oral examination.
Prerequisites: JATE Academic English I.

Recommended textbooks and readings include:
Morgan, Kenneth O.: The Oxford History of Britain. Oxford: OUP, 1993. (One vol., pbk edn)
Morgan, Kenneth O.: The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. (Oxford: OUP, 1992), 104-222
Ridley, Jasper: The History of England. London & Sydney: Futura, 1983 [1981]
Poole, A.L. From Doomsday Book to Magna Carta: 1087-1216. (Oxford History of England) 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1963.
Powicke, F. Maurice: Thirteenth Century: 1216-1307. (Oxford History of England) 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1963.
McKisack, May: Fourteenth Century 1307-1399. (Oxford History of England) Oxford: OUP, 1959.
Jacob, E.F. Fifteenth Century 1399-1485. (Oxford History of England) Oxford, OUP, 1961.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram's translation — Gutenberg)
Varga Vanda Éva (ed.): A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Documenta Historica 18. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1994.; Jójárt Júlia—Varga Vanda Éva (eds), A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Második, átdolgozott kiadás. Documenta Historica 34. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1998.
Rimaszombati Károly (ed.): Vikingek az Angolszász Krónikában. Documenta Historica 31. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1997.
Further literature will be recommended during the lecture course.

18th-Century American History
(The Revolution) — [up]

Course Description: The course, a lecture series, surveys in some detail the road to the revolution in the English colonies of North America. Special emphasis will be laid on the ideas and the persons that led to the Revolution (Locke, Adams, Jefferson, etc.) The discussed topics will include: Colonies to provinces; the French and the Spanish; spiritual movements, Great Awakening; development of slavery, Black rebellions; Indian wars; vigilants and regulators; Locke and Montesquieu; First Empire; taxation and representation; the writs of assistance, James Otis; Benjamin Franklin; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; making the Revolution; fighting for independence; making the Republic/Constitution.

Assignments, grading:The course will be concluded with an oral examination.

Textbooks will include
The Oxford History of the United States. Oxford: OUP;
Daniel Boorstin: The Americans. The Colonial Experience. New York: Random House, 1958 (In Hungarian: Az amerikaiak. A gyarmatosítás kora. Budapest: Gondolat, 1991.);
Henry Steele Commager: Documents of American History I. (several editions).
Other readings will be recommended as we go along.

Prerequisites: JATE Academic English I

 

 

 

Witchcraft in the Old and New Worlds — [up]

Course Description: The course attempts to survey the history of witchcraft. Malleus Maleficarum, indispensable for understanding modern age persecutions, will be read and discussed. Special attention will be paid to the treatment of witches in Hungary (and Szeged). The main thrust of the seminar will be directed towards witches in England and particularly in colonial North America, with special emphasis on the Salem case, which, in a sense, epitomises the characteristics of New England witchcraft. The discussions will hopefully be based on primary sources. The topics will include: Early and pre-Christian witchcraft; witches and the Bible; witchcraft, heresy, and the Inquisition; Malleus Maleficarum; witches in Hungary; witches in England; Matthew Hopkins witch-finder; witchcraft in the American Colonies; Salem 1692.
Prerequisites: JATE Academic English I; preferably a course on American history.
Assignments, grading (%), textbooks: Assignments to students will include short introductions to the topic under discussion based on their readings of the literature, which may and may not be made available by the instructor. The proceedings of each class will be recorded by a participant and approved of at the next meeting. The course will be concluded by an end-term paper (2nd & 3rd years ten-page [15,000 characters], 4th years twenty-page [30,000 characters] long) to be submitted both on paper and on disc by the middle of June. Classroom activity will include small (2-5 thousand characters) presentations prepared at the request of the instructor on various aspects of the subject. For grading, classroom activity (30%), the introduction (30%) and the end-term paper (40%) will be considered. The (at least one) introduction and the end-term paper are preconditions of grading.

Weekly Schedule

1) INTRODUCTION, WARMING TO THE SUBJECT.

  • KULCSÁR, Zsuzsanna, Inkvizíció és boszorkánypörök. Gondolat: Budapest, 1968 (3rd edn) (SK: A3948; JATEK: TA60058, TA33624)
  • RÁTH-VÉGH, István, A varázsvessző. Gondolat: Budapest, 1979.
  • RÁTH-VÉGH, István, A sátán és cimborái. Budapest, 1948 (SK: G.b.1089), Pannon Könyvkiadó: Budapest, 1991.
  • RÁTH-VÉGH, István, Az emberek butításának történetéből. Budapest, 1952. (SK: G.b.1081)

2) DEFINITIONS I. THEORIES ON THE ORIGINS OF WITCH PERSECUTIONS.

  • Exodus 22:17.; Levit 19:26, 20:27.; Deut 18:9-14.; 1Sam 15:23, 28:3, 28:7ff.; 2Ki 9:22.; 2Chr 33:6.; Mi 5:12.; Nah 3:4.; Gal 5:20.
  • MOLNÁR ÉVA, Boszorkányperek Magyarországon a XVII-XVIII. században. Budapest, 1942. pp. 15-21.
  • TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh R., "Witches and Witchcraft. An Historical Essay." In: Encounter May 1967, pp.3—18, June 1967 [X] pp.13—33. (NGY)

3) DEFINITIONS II. MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, AND INNOCENT VIII.

  • SPRENGER, Iacobus—INSTITORIS, Henricus, Malleus Maleficarum De Lamiis et Strigibus, et sagis, aliisque Magis & Daemoniacis, eorumque arte, & potestate, & poena, etc. Francofuri, 1588. (SK: B.c.507; E.b.298)
  • SPRENGER, Iacobus—INSTITORIS, Henricus, Malleus Maleficarum. The Hammer of Witchcraft. Translated by Montague Summers and edited with an introduction by Pennethorne Hughes. (Abridged edition). The Folio Society: London, 1968. ([X]NGY)

4) DEFINITIONS III. WITCHHUNTS ON THE CONTINENT.

  • SOLDANS Geschichte der Hexenprozesse. I-II. Neu bearbeitet von Dr. Heinrich HEPPE. Stuttgart, 1880. (SK: G.a.673)
  • HAÁSZ, Imre, A boszorkányság útja. Genezis. Miskolc, 1925. (SK: G.e.4781)

5) WITCHES IN HUNGARY. MORE THAN FOUR CENTURIES.

  • In Corpus Juris Hung.: S.Stephani II. Cap. 31, 32.; S.Ladislai I. Cap. 34.; Colomani I. Cap. 57-60. Cf. 1879. XL/79.
  • KOMÁROMY, Andor, Magyarországi boszorkányperek oklevéltára. <461 per> Magyar Tudományos Akadémia: Budapest, 1910. (SK: G.e.2248)
  • SCHRAM Ferenc (ed.), Magyarországi boszorkányperek 1529-1768. I-III. <569 per> Budapest, 1970-1982. See particularly III. pp. 13-112. (JATEK: TB61812-3, B104223-4; B101418, B101081, B101082; SK: C7649-50, C17995)
  • MOLNÁR ÉVA, Boszorkányperek Magyarországon a XVII-XVIII. században. Budapest, 1942. pp. 15-21.
  • SZILÁGYI, Sándor, "A boszorkányok történetéhez." Századok 1881, pp.593—602.
  • BÁLINT, N. I., Boszorkányüldözés Magyarországon a XVI. században. (SK: H.g.469)
  • OLTVAI, Ferenc, Szegedi boszorkányégetés. (SK: C14683)

6) WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND AND GREAT BRITAIN. JAMES I & WITCHES

  • STEARNE, John A., A confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft. William Wilson: London, 1648. Reprint: The Rota at the University of Exeter, 1973. ([X]NGY)
  • KITTREDGE, George Lyman, Witchcraft in Old and New England. Atheneum: New York, 1972 [1928] ([X]Spec.Col)

7) MATTHEW HOPKINS WITCHFINDER GENERAL.

  • A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts Relating to Witchcraft in the Counties of Kent, Essex, Sufolk, Norfolk, and Lincoln, between the Years 1618 and 1664. Reprinted Verbatim from the Original Editions, with a Portrait of Matthew Hopkins of Essex, the Celebrated Witch-Finder, from a Rare Print in the Pepysian Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge. John Russell Smith: London, 1838. ([X]NGY)

8) WITCHES IN THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES.

  • MATHER, Cotton, The Wonders of the Invisible World. John Russell Smith: London, 1862 [1693]. ([X]Spec.Col)
  • MATHER, Increase, Remarkable Providences. John Russell Smith: [London] Soho Square, 1856. Reprint: Arno Press: New York, 1977. ([X]Spec.Col)
  • DRAKE, Frederick C., "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1642-62." In: American Quarterly <??> ([X]NGY)
  • DEMOS, John Putnam, "Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century England." In: American Historical Review June 1970. pp. 1311—1326. (Dept.Lib)
  • BOOTH, Sally S., The Witches of Early America. New York, 1975.
  • DEMOS, John Putnam, Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Early New England. New York, 1982.

9) SALEM 1692 AND AFTER.

  • Records of Salem Witchcraft Copied from the Original Documents. I-II. 1864. Reprint: Burt Franklin: New York, 1972. ([X]Spec.Col)
  • SEWALL, Samuel, Diary, 1674—1729. I-III. Harvard UP: Cambridge, 1882. Reprint: Arno Press: New York, 1972. ([X]Spec.Col)
  • FOX, Sanford J., Science and Justice. The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials. The Johns Hopkins Press: Baltimore, 1968. ([X]NGY)
  • STEINBACH, Gaby,"'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' (Exodus 22:18) — Girardian Theory and Salem Village Witchcraft." In: Winfried Herget (ed.), Studies in New England Puritanism. Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 1983. pp.99—112. ([X]NGY)

10) WITCHES AND MINORITIES (JEWS, WOMEN, COLOURED PEOPLE).

  • KARLSEN, Carol F., Devil in the Shape of a Woman. Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York, 1989. (NGY)
  • MERCHANT, Caroline, "Nature as Disorder. Women and Witches." Chapter 5 in: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1990 [1980]. ([X]NGY)

11) WITCHCRAFT AND WITCHES IN THE POPULAR IMAGINATION

  • MILLER, Arthur, The Crucible. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1973.
  • THE ÁSOTTHALOM AFFAIR

12) CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION OF END-TERM PAPER.

 

Introduction to American Studies [up]

Lecture cum discussion course for 1st-year American Studies majors

Objective and procedure
The course offers an introduction to the discipline, discussing the various definitions, approaches, methods of American studies. Also, it will give a sample of possible themes you may encounter throughout the program.
The major topics of the course: Definitions, methodologies of American Studies; The invention and the making of America; The Transatlantic persuasion; The New England experience; The women's experience of America; Minorities in America (Native Americans, Blacks, European immigrants); Popular culture in America; Regionalism; Americanization and Globalization.
In class discussions of the topics will be based on set readings.
You are expected to make an oral presentation of your draft essay before submission of the paper. The presentation must observe the schedule.

Writing assignments
a.) You will write an essay of 6-9000 characters (4-6 pages), on one of the themes in the schedule (your choice), drawing on the set texts and the pertinent classroom discussion. Deadline: December 20. (That means 5 presentations per class starting from October 4 — max. 3-5 minutes each).
b.) you will write a final examination (in class).

Grading
Class participation will contribute 10%, the essay 50% and the final 40% to your overall course grade. The oral presentation of your draft will count as part of your class participation.
Texts

Bellah, Robert N. et alia. Habits of the Heart. Individualism and Commitment in American Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1986
Bode, Carl (ed.) American Perspectives. The United States in the Modern Age. Washington: USIA, 1992.
Bradbury, Malcolm and Temperley, Howard (eds.) Introduction to American Studies London, New York: Longman, 1981.
Deetz, J. In Small Things Forgotten. The Archelogy of Early American Life. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.
Evans, J.Martin, America: The View from Europe. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.
Garreau, Joel, The Nine Nations of America. New York: Avon Books, 1981
Nye, David. Contemporary American Society. Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1990
Országh László, Bevezetés az amerikanisztikába. Budapest: Tankönyvkiadó, 1972.
Plus: required readings in xerox copies and/or on the net;
one classic American movie to be identified later.

Schedule of assignments
The red underlined passages are available in the Master Copies.
The blue are directly accessible links

(1) Introduction. Definition of terms.

(2) Historical survey of American Studies, 1.

Readings:
  • Országh, 11-15.
  • Bradbury-Temperley, 1-21.
  • Noble, David W., "Amerika anglo-protestáns kisajátítása" In: Aetas, 1996:1,144-159.
  • Elazar, Daniel J., "The Three-Dimensional Location of the United States". In: The American Mosaic. The Impact of Space, Time, and Culture on American Politics (Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1994), 1-39.
  • Turner, F.J., "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (link)

(3) Historical survey of American Studies, 2.
Readings:

  • Rozsnyai, B. "High Culture, Popular Culture, and the Teaching of American Studies in Hungary." In: Kretzoi (ed), High and Low in American Culture. Budapest, ELTE: 1986. 197-204.
  • Kessler-Harris, A., "Cultural Locations. Positioning American Strudies in the Great Debate", in: American Quarterly, 44:2, 299-312.
  • Bellah, 27-51.
  • Deetz, 2-43, 156-161.

(4) The invention and the construction of America.
Readings:

  • Bradbury-Temperley, 23-62.

Recommended (read at least one):

  • Greenblatt, Stephen. "Marvelous Possessions", in: Marvelous Possessions (Oxford UP, Oxford, 1991), 52-85.
  • Greene, Jack P. "Encounters: Projection and Design in the Construction of English America, 1580-1690". In: The Intellectual Construction of America. Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 34-62.

(5) The Transatlantic persuasion.
Readings:

  • Evans, 43-83, 105-121.
  • Bercovitch, S. "Investigations of an Americanist," in: JAH, 78:3, 972-87.

(6) The New England experience.
Readings:

  • Bradbury-Temperley, 63-85.
  • Garreau, 14-48.

(7) The women's experience of America.
Readings:

  • From The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. In: Bode, 231-235.
  • Excerpts by Audre Lorde. In: Bode, 292-295.
  • Nancy F. Scott: "Feminist Theory and Feminist Movements: The Past Before Us." In: Juliet Mitchell & Ann Oakley (eds): What is feminism? (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986), pp. 49-62.

(8) Minorities in America (Native Americans, African Americans, European immigrants, Hispanics, Asian Americans). Native Americans: changing representations (captivity narratives to popular fiction/film)
Readings:

  • Garreau, 128-166 or 207-244.

(9) Cultural traditions in America.
Readings:

  • Bellah, 3-26.

(10) (Popular) culture in America.
Readings:

  • Kitses, J. "The Western", in: Staples, D.E. (ed.) The American Cinema, 313-329. (Or any of the short essays in that volume.)
  • Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (Hungarian translation by Lénárt Edna ©1967 is also acceptable)
  • Individual viewing of The Maltese Falcon and the episode called The Big Goodbye of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

(11) Regionalism. Americanization and globalization.
Readings:

  • Garreau, ix-xvii, 1-13.
  • Nye, 9-50.

(12) Final in class

 

The Founding Fathers and the Constitution — [up]

The course considers the development of the main ideas that formed the Constitution of the USA through a series of documents.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Reading and discussing the documents in question, producing a midterm paper of 10 pages and handing it in during the week between November 30 and December 4. GRADING will be based on classroom activity (60%) and the midterm paper (40%). General ideas: a) the separation of powers; b) popular sovereignty; c) local vs. central government (states vs federal); d) republican form of government; e) democracy
General set reading:

Hannah Arendt: A forradalom (Európa, Budapest. 1991)

Weekly schedule:

1) Philosophical foundations

John Locke: Értekezés a polgári kormányzat igazi eredetéről, hatásköréről és céljáról. (Gondolat, Budapest. 1986)
Montesquieu: A törvények szelleméről. 1-2. (Akademiai, Budapest, 1962)

2) The Beginning: James Otis

James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance, 1761. In: The Annals of America. Volume 2. 1775-1783. Resistance and Revolution. (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1976) pp. 74-77.; H. S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History, Vol I. No. 32. pp. 45-47.
James Otis: Rights of the British Colonies, 1764. In: The Annals of America, pp. 103-115.
Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View of the Rights of British America. In: The Annals of America, pp. 258-265. & The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Ed. M.D. Peterson; Viking Penguin, New York, 1977), pp. 1-21.

3) A case study: the judiciary

John Adams: On the Independence of the Judges. In: Papers of John Adams I. pp. 252-309.

4) Romantic revolution: Paine

Thomas Paine: Az ember jogai. In: Az angolszász liberalizmus klasszikusai I. (Atlantisz, Budapest, 1991) pp. 7-39.

5) Planning in earnest

John Adams: Thoughts on Government. In: Papers of John Adams IV. pp. 65-93.
Thomas Jefferson: Draft Constitution for Virginia, 1776. In: The Portable Thomas Jefferson, pp. 242-251.; H. S. Commager (ed.): Documents of American History, Vol I. No. 77. pp. 121-123.

6) Prototypes

Thomas Jefferson: Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory, 1784. In: The Portable Thomas Jefferson, pp. 254-259.
The Constitution of Vermont. In: The Annals of America, pp. 483-487.
Massachusetts Bill of Rights. In: The Annals of America, pp. 532-536.; H. S. Commager (ed.): Documents of American History, Vol I. No. 70. pp. 107-110.

7) Making the Constitution I.

James Madison: The Federal Convention of 1787. In: The Annals of America. Volume 3. 17841796. Organizing the New Nation. (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1976), pp. 95-121.
The utility of the Union as a Safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection. Chapters IX by [Hamilton] & X by [Madison]. in: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay: The Federalist Papers (Penguin, London, 1987), pp. 118-128.

8) Making the Constitution II.

The Meaning of the Maxim, which Requires a Separation of the Departments of Power, Examined and Ascertained; The Same Subject Continued with a View to the Means of Giving Efficacy in Practice to that Maxim. Chapters XLVII—LI by [Madison] in: The Federalist Papers, pp. 302-322.

9) Making the Constitution III.

A View of the Constitution of the Judicial Department in Relation to the Tenure of Good Behavior; A Further View of the Judicial Department in Relation to the Provosions for the Support and Responsibility of the Judges; A Further View of the Judicial Department in Relation to the Extent of Its Powers; A Further View of the Judicial Department in Relation to the Distribution of Its Authority; A Further View of the Judicial Power in Reference to Some Miscellaneous Questions; A Further View of the Judicial Department in Relation to the Trial by Jury. Chapters LXXVIII—LXXXIII by [Hamilton] in: The Federalist Papers, pp. 436-473.

10) Those not present

Lester J. Cappon (ed.): The AdamsJefferson Letters. The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. TJ to JA, Paris, August 30, 1787. pp. 194-196.; JA to TJ, London, November 10, 1787. p. 210.; TJ to JA, Paris, November 13, 1787. pp. 211-212.; JA to TJ, London, December 6, 1787. pp. 213-214.; JA to TJ, Braintree, March 1, 1789. pp. 236-237.; TJ to JA, Monticello, June 27, 1913. pp. 335-338.
The Works of John Adams (ed. C. F. Adams, Boston, 1850-56) JA to R. Price, New York, April 19, 1790. IX/563-565.; JA to B. Rush, Quincy, September 3, 1808. IX/600-602.; JA to J. Quincy, Quincy, February 9, 1811. IX/629-632.; JA to J. Taylor, Quincy, April 12, 1824. X/413.

11) In retrospect

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Doubleday, New York, 1969) Chapter 6.: Judicial Power in the United States and Its Effect on Political Society, pp. 99-105.; Chapter 8.: The Federal Constitution, pp. 112-170.

12) Summing up

 

English History Survey I.
(to 1689)

Course Description: The course offers a chronological survey of the mediaeval history of the peoples of the British isles from the earliest times to the Glorious Revolution. The political, economic, social, intellectual aspects of the period will be discussed as well. The participants will become familiar with the most important events and developments of early English history and they will study some of the essential sources and documents pertaining to the period. The topics discussed will include — Prehistory, from Paleolithic to Neolithic; — henges, stone circles, Stonehenge — The Celts — Roman Britain — Gildas: De excidio Britanniae; — Early Anglo-Saxon Britain; the Heptarchy — Kent, Mercia, Northumbria; Offa 6-9th centuries — Wessex in the 9-10th centurie; Alfred — The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — The Vikings: raids and settlements, the Great Danish Army; Danelag & Danegeld — The Advent of the Normans (* ** ***) — Doomsday Book (* ** ***)— English feudalism (Coronation Charter of Henry I)— Anarchy — Plantagenet expansion — Common Law — Heraldry — Plantagenet disaster — Magna Carta — beginnings of Parliament — Celtic troubles — Regicides — the Black Death and after — the Hundred Years' War — Wars of the Roses — English architecture — The Tudors (Henry VIII, Elizabeth I) The Act of Supremacy— Reformation (Puritans, Catholics, Separatists) — the Stuarts (The Petition of Right) and the Civil War — Restauration — Constitutional changes (The Bill of Rights)
Assignments, grading (%), textbooks: Participants will take an oral examination at the end of the term.

Recommended textbooks will include:

  • Morgan, Kenneth O.: The Oxford History of Britain. Oxford: OUP, 1993. (One vol., pbk edn)
  • Morgan, Kenneth O.: The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. (Oxford: OUP, 1992), to p. 222
  • Ridley, Jasper: The History of England. London & Sydney: Futura, 1983 [1981]
  • Poole, A.L. From Doomsday Book to Magna Carta: 1087-1216. (Oxford History of England) 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1963.
  • Powicke, F. Maurice: Thirteenth Century: 1216-1307. (Oxford History of England) 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1963.
  • McKisack, May: Fourteenth Century 1307-1399. (Oxford History of England) Oxford: OUP, 1959.
  • Jacob, E.F. Fifteenth Century 1399-1485. (Oxford History of England) Oxford, OUP, 1961.
  • Morton, A.L., A People's History of England. several editions [1938].
  • R.G. Collingwood & J.N.L. Myres, Roman Britain and the English Settlements (Oxford History of England);
  • F.M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England).
  • From the Pelican History of England: 1. Richmond, I., Roman Britain;
  • 2. Whitelock, D., The Beginnings of English Society (from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion).
  • The Life of King Alfred by Asser
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  • H. de Bracton: De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
  • Varga Vanda Éva (ed.): A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Documenta Historica 18. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1994.; Jójárt Júlia—Varga Vanda Éva (eds), A Bayeux-i faliszőnyeg. Második, átdolgozott kiadás. Documenta Historica 34. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1998.
  • Rimaszombati Károly (ed.): Vikingek az Angolszász Krónikában. Documenta Historica 31. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1997.
  • Novák Veronika (ed.): Gildas: Britannia romlásáról. Documenta Historica 32. Szeged, JATE Történész Diákkör, 1997.

History of the United Kingdom (Primary Documents) — an excellent website

The Magna Carta
Exemplification of 1215
British Library, Cotton Augustus II. 106