History 600

HIST 600: Advanced Explorations in History: Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, and the "Glorious Revolution": Religious Culture Wars in Britain, c. 1529-1689 David Manning

The Reformation in England was a multifarious and divisive process which sought to redefine and reaffirm what true Christianity was and who God’s chosen people were. This course will provide an introduction to the changing, overlapping, and contested Protestant cultures that emerged from Henry VIII’s break from Rome. Following a general chronological progression it will focus on six major topics which will reflect some of the latest academic research and bring together analysis on people, ideas, and events, developing an historical appreciation of contemporaries who appeared to exist in a state of flux between God and the anti-Christ. The course will be of most interest to students of History, Religion, Politics, Philosophy, and English Literature.

This course is available for graduate credit as History 800.

David Manning holds a B.A. from Lancaster University, an M.A. from the University of Durham and has just completed a Ph.D. in history at Clare College, Cambridge. His research interests concern the cultural history of theology in early modern Britain and his publications include: "Anti-Providentialism as Blasphemy in Late Stuart England: A Case Study of 'the Stage Debate,'" Journal of Religious History, 32.4 (December, 2008), pp. 422-38; and "Accusations of Blasphemy in English Anti-Quaker Polemic, c.1660-1701," Quaker Studies (forthcoming, 2009). David spent four months traveling around North America in 2004 and was history tutor for the Davidson College Summer Program in Cambridge in 2006.