QUESTIONS TO THE CREDIT
Theatre and Music
Painting
British Architecture
Seminars
The Lancasters and the Yorks
1. Economic and political situation in the country after the Hundred Years War.
2. Henry VI, his personality and rule.
3. The Yorks and the Lancastrians.
4. The Wars of Roses; its results.
5. Struggle for the throne
6. Edward IV
7. Richard III.
1. Westminster Abbey.
2. The Tower of London.
3. Norman architecture.
4. Salisbury Cathedral.
5. Great English Universities.
6. Eton College.
7. St Georges Chapel.
8. Windsor.
9. Hampton Court.
10. Sir Christopher Wren. St Paul’s Cathedral.
11. Kensington Palace.
12. Buckingham Palace
1. William Hogarth.
2. Joshua Reynolds.
3. Thomas Gainsborough.
4. John Constable.
5. Hans Hobbein the Younger.
6. Inigo Jones.
7. Anthony Van Dyck.
8. Joseph Mallord William Turner.
9. Pre-Raphaelites
1. The Elizabethan theatre.
2. William Shakespeare.
3. Henry Purcell.
4. George Frideric Handel.
5. ‘God Save the King’.
6. Opera Houses and Concert Halls.
7. Covent Garden
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ТЕМЫ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЙ
1. Stonehenge and other ancient monuments on the territory of the British Isles
2. Druidical religion and its followers nowadays
3. Roman towns
4. Hadrian’s and Antonine Walls
5. King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table
6. Anglo-Saxon literature and Art
7. Alfred the Great
8. The Danish kings
9. William the Conqueror
10. Richard the Lionhearted
11. Thomas Becket
12. John Wycliffe and the Lollards
13. Henry VII
14. Henry VIII
15. Queen Elizabeth I
16. Mary Stuart
17. Francis Bacon
18. Oliver Cromwell
19. John Milton
20. Georgian kings
21. Queen Victoria
22. Horatio Nelson
23. Arthur W. Wellington
24. Samuel Johnson
1. Early Britain. Ancient people and their ways of life
2. The monuments of that time; hedges. Stonehenge.
3. Three waves of the Celtic invasion.
4. The Celtic society. The Druids.
5. J. Caesar and Britons. The two expeditions by Caesar.
6. The Roman invasion under Emperor Claudius.
7. Resistance to the Romans. Caractacus.
8. The uprising of Boudicca.
9. The Roman towns and villas.
10. Britain as a Roman province.
11. Angles, Saxons and Jutes; the origin, social development.
12. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
13. Saxon kingdoms; ways of life and administration. The Witan.
14. Religion and Culture. Christianity. The Synod of Whitby.
15. Beowulf.
16. Early raids of the Danes. The Conquest.
17. The struggle against the Danes
18. King Alfred the Great. Danelaw and Saxon England.
19. King Ethelred and King Sweyn. Danegeld.
20. King Canute. The Earlship.
21. Edward the Confessor.
22. Harold and William of Normandy.
23. The battle of Hastings. William I.
24. The Norman rule.
25. Feudal laws.
26. The Domesday Book.
27. Norman kings.