HIST 640 Later Medieval England
Intended to give students an introduction to the variety of topics and of approaches in historical research and writing concerning later-medieval England (basically, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries). The reading list has been put together, first, to construct topically-based units of reading, drawn from a variety of areas (political, religious, social, economic, etc.); and second, to illustrate different typologies of work exemplified in the current secondary literature at large. Emphasis in discussion not only upon substantive topics, but also upon historiography. Each student chooses one larger topic or problem arising out of the reading list for a more extended historiographical essay.