I am finishing up my PhD coursework this semster and one of my courses
is a reading seminar in Tudor-Stuart England conudcted by Dr. RObert Finlay.
Some of the materials we are using include:
Keith Thomas, "Religion and the Decline of Magic"
Peter Laslett, "The World We Have Lost"
David Cressy, "Bonfires and Bells"
Margaret Spufford, "Small Books and Pleasant Histories"
C.J. Sommerville, "The SEcularization of Early Modern ENgland"
David Underdown, "Revel, Riot and REbellion"
Christopher Hill, "The World Turned Upside DOwn"
J.P. Sommerville, "Politics and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England"
Lawrence Stone, "The Family, SEx, and Marriage 1500-1800"
D. Russell, "The Causes of the ENglish Civil War"
Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the ENglish REvolution"
A.G.R. Smith, "Making of a Modern Nation-State"
I can't recall exact titles of few others, but there is a book by David
Cressy on Literacy in England which has been highly praised, besides
works by J.H. Plumb, and an anthology of primary sources edited by David
Wootton.
Julie E. Smith
University of Arkansas
PhD candidate -- British History
jesmith@uark.comp.edu