Montserrat Jiménez Sureda, UAB

Aim of the Course
This cours intends to analyse the evolution of England during the Tudor Age.

Evaluation
The evaluation of this subject will be based on class participation -which will provide a 50 % of the final note- and a final exam -which will provide a 50 % of the final note.

Course Outline
Week 1. After Bosworth. Henry VII and the beginning of a new era
Week 2. The building of a new model of state
Week 3. Structural changes under Henry VIII
Week 4. English expansion over islands and continent
Week 5. Struggle for power between aristocrats. The minority of Edward VI
Week 6. Religion in the Parliament
Week 7. The nine days of lady Jane
Week 8. Mary I and retorn to catolicism
Week 9. The disgraceful foreign affairs
Week 10. The golden age of Elizabeth
Week 11. Projection over Scotland. Mary Stuart's case
Week 12. The triumph of a nation?

Required reading
Atkins, Sinclair, Englad and Wales under the Tudors, Edward Arnold, Londres, 1980.
or
Bindoff, S. T., Tudor England, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982.
or
Lockyer, Roger, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714, Longman, Singapur, 1994 (only the Tudor part).

Selected bibliography
Storey, R. L., The reign of Henry VII, Blandford, Londres, 1968.
Bernard, G. W., War, taxation and rebellion in Early Tudor England. Henry VIII, Wosley and the Amicable Grant of 1525, Harvester, Sussex, 1986.
Scarisbrick, J. J., Henry VIII, Methuen, Londres, 1976.
Jordan, W. K., Edward VI: The threshold of power. The dominance of the duke of Northumberland, George Allen and Unwin ltd., Londres, 1970.
Chapman, Hester W., Lady Jane Grey, october 1537-february 1554, Pan Books, Londres, 1972.
Loach, Jennifer, Parliament and the Crown in the reign of Mary Tudor, Clarendon, Oxford, 1986.
Loades, D. M., The reign of Mary Tudor. Politics, government and religion in England, 1553-58, Longman, Londres, 1991.
Black, J. B., The reign of Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
Maccafrey, Wallace T., Elizabeth I. War and politics, 1588-1603, Universidad de Princeton, Princeton, 1992.
Palliser, D. M., The age of Elizabeth. England under the late Tudors, 1547-1603, Longman, Londres, 1992.

Literary resources
Historical novels
Zweig, Stefan, The queen of Scots, Cassell, London, 1987.

Audio-visual resources
Historical documentaries
The dissolution of monasteries. Warwick History Videos
Warwick University. Written and conducted by J. J. Scarisbrick
Fictional films
Elizabeth, English production filmed in 1998, directed by Shekkar Kappur from a script by Michael Hirst. Main roles played by Cate Blanchett, Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush and Christopher Eccleston.

Biography
MA in History and Ph.D. in Early Modern History. Professor of Early Modern History and Vicedirector of Research activities at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, UAB. Specialized in History of the Church during the Enlightenment. Published a book entitled L'esglèsia catalana sota la monarquia dels Borbons. La catedral de Girona en el segle XVIII (Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona, 1999) and the biography of the Catalan enlightened philosopher Francesc Xavier Dorca i Parra in the collective work Girona a l'época de la Il-lustració (C.E.H.S., Girona, 2001). Among other things, she has dealt with the disarming of Catalans after the War of the Spanish Succession in La politica armamentística de los Borbones en Cataluña tras la Guerra de Sucesiòn (“Investigaciones Historicas”, 21, 2001, pp. 103-131) and the role of Spanish women during the Eighteenth Century in La situació femenina en l'Antic Règim (“Revista de Catalunya”, 174, june 2002, pp. 25-50). She is presently engaged in a project on the overlapping of institutions and families in a “space of power” such as the cathedral of Girona.