The Plantagenet Dynasty

The Normans

The Danish period

Anglo-Saxon Britain

Britain as a Roman province

Early Britain. The invasion of the Celts

Lectures

ИСТОРИЯ ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ

СПИСОК ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ

Основная литература

1. Baranovsky L.S., Kozikis D.D. Panorama of Great Britain. – Mn, 1990

2. McDowall D. An Illustrated History of Britain. – Longman, 1995

3. Minchenkov A.G. Glimpses of Britain. – Спб.: Антология, 2006

4. Pavlotsky V.M. Great Britain. Monarchy. History. Culture. – Спб.: Caro,

2006

Дополнительная литература

5. Burova I. The History of England. Absolute Monarchy. – S-P, 1996

6. Burova I. The History of England. Parliamentary Monarchy. – S-P, 1996

1. Calloway S., Jones S. Power and Glory. – Pyramid Books, 1991

2. Gumbel A. London. – Cadogan, 2000

3. Our Island Heritage. - The Reader’s Digest Association, London, 1988

4. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Encyclopedic Dictionary. – Oxford, 1992

THE OUTLINE OF LECTURE AND SEMINAR TOPICS

1. Old Stone Age men.

2. New Stone Age (Neolithic) people, or Iberians.

3. The Beaker people. The first individual graves.

4. The monuments of that time; hedges. Stonehenge.

5. The Celts; waves of migration. The Gaels, the Brithons, the Belgae.

6. Julius Caesar about the Celts.

7. Ways of life, culture, religion; the Druids.

1. J. Caesar and Britons. The two expeditions by Caesar.

2. Emperor Claudius.

3. Resistance; Boudicca, Caractacus.

4. The Romans and the Scots; the Hadrian Wall.

5. Towns and villas; roads and bridges.

6. The work of administration; the growth of population.

7. Christianity; language; proper names.

8. The withdrawal of the Roman troops.

1. Arrival in Britain - as a means of defence against sea pirates.

2. Angles, Saxons and Jutes; the origin, social development.

3. Resistance; King Author; the Picts and Scots; the Celts in Wales.

4. Saxon kingdoms; ways of life and administration. The Witan.

5. Attempts of union. King Offa of Mercia.

6. Religion and Culture; Beowulf.

7. Christianity. The Synod of Whitby.

1. Early raids of the Danes. The Conquest.

2. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms

3. The struggle against the Danes

4. King Alfred the Great. Danelaw and Saxon England.

5. King Ethelred and King Sweyn. Danegeld.

6. King Canute. The Earlship.

1. Edward the Confessor.

2. Earl Godwin and his son Harold. Harold and William of Normandy; Harold’s oath.

3. Harold the King. Fight against the Danes in the North.

4. The battle of Hastings.

5. William I. Coronation.

6. The rule. Fight against the opposition.

7. Feudal laws.

8. The Domesday Book.

9. Culture and language.

1. Economic and social development of the country.

2. Henry II. Thomas Becket.

3. Richard the Lionhearted and the crusades. His struggle for lands in France.

4. John Lackland and his rule. The historical significance of Magna Carta.

5. The peasants’ revolt of Wat Tyler: its reasons, events and results.

6. The work of John Wycliffe. The Lollards.