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History 600 & 800
Advanced Explorations in History: Henry VIII, Cromwell, and the "Glorious Revolution": Religious Culture Wars in Britain, c. 1529-1689
DAVID MANNING
The Reformation in Britain 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. Students will gain an understanding of the religious convictions that fueled the 'stripping of the altars', the persecution of heretics, the rise of Puritanism, the civil war, and the cultural dominance of Anglicanism. Students will also have the opportunity to engage with selected primary texts and images to gain an appreciation of the contemporary cultures that appeared to exist in a state of flux between God and the anti-Christ.
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.
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