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特殊講義IV[イギリス研究コース]
Monarchy and Religion in England / Britain c.1649-1902
The monarchy is one of the most important institutions in modern British history. This course focuses on one
aspect of the history of the modern monarchy, its relationship with the religious life of the British world. The
relationship between the monarchy and this religious life has been one of the great shaping elements in the
British past ever since the emergence of the English and Scottish monarchies in the early medieval period, and in often little understood ways it remains fundamental even now to the character of the British state even in
the opening decades of the twenty-first century. The examination of monarchy and religion enables
penetrating questions to be asked about English and British life over long periods.
Religion was for centuries a leading feature in the beliefs, culture, social life, politics, government, and sense of community of the people of the British Isles. It was also central to the public identity of English and British monarchs, as is symbolized in the coronation service when they are not only crowned but also anointed as
specifically Christian rulers. Since the Reformation the monarch has also been supreme governor of the
Church of England, and since the revolution of 1688 anyone who is, or (until 2013) who is married to, a Roman Catholic is debarred from inheriting the throne. Yet since the seventeenth century the religious identity of the monarch has been paradoxical. In England all monarchs except James II (1685–8) have been members of the
Church of England. But in Scotland they are members of the Church of Scotland, a separate and theologically distinct protestant church. Some monarchs were also members of other churches, as ruler of the Dutch
Republic (1689–1702) and as electors and kings of Hanover (1714–1837). They have ruled over territories,
such as Ireland and Canada, where the majority of their subjects were Roman Catholics, and, with the
expansion of the Empire in the nineteenth century, they acquired millions of Hindu and Muslim subjects.
The course will focus on the period between the revolutions of the mid-seventeenth century and the reign of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. It will take a broadly chronological approach to examining the relationship between monarchy and religion, beginning with the revolutionary moment of the execution of a divinely-anointed king (Charles I) and the expulsion of his Roman Catholic son (James II) forty years later. It will then
explore the protestant monarchy of the eighteenth century in a national and international context and the
crises of that monarchy in an increasingly multi-faith empire, concluding with the creation of a new
monarchical tradition under Queen Victoria. As such it enables us to explore one of the less studied
manifestations of Britain’s transition from ‘early modernity’ to ‘modernity’.
The course will be delivered through a series of informal lectures and seminar discussions. The former will
provide an interpretative, chronological overview. The latter will introduce students to original texts, facilitating
in-depth study of some key episodes. Seminar discussion also has an important methodological purpose,
allowing students to develop and refine their skills in the ‘close reading’ of historical documents.
aspect of the history of the modern monarchy, its relationship with the religious life of the British world. The
relationship between the monarchy and this religious life has been one of the great shaping elements in the
British past ever since the emergence of the English and Scottish monarchies in the early medieval period, and in often little understood ways it remains fundamental even now to the character of the British state even in
the opening decades of the twenty-first century. The examination of monarchy and religion enables
penetrating questions to be asked about English and British life over long periods.
Religion was for centuries a leading feature in the beliefs, culture, social life, politics, government, and sense of community of the people of the British Isles. It was also central to the public identity of English and British monarchs, as is symbolized in the coronation service when they are not only crowned but also anointed as
specifically Christian rulers. Since the Reformation the monarch has also been supreme governor of the
Church of England, and since the revolution of 1688 anyone who is, or (until 2013) who is married to, a Roman Catholic is debarred from inheriting the throne. Yet since the seventeenth century the religious identity of the monarch has been paradoxical. In England all monarchs except James II (1685–8) have been members of the
Church of England. But in Scotland they are members of the Church of Scotland, a separate and theologically distinct protestant church. Some monarchs were also members of other churches, as ruler of the Dutch
Republic (1689–1702) and as electors and kings of Hanover (1714–1837). They have ruled over territories,
such as Ireland and Canada, where the majority of their subjects were Roman Catholics, and, with the
expansion of the Empire in the nineteenth century, they acquired millions of Hindu and Muslim subjects.
The course will focus on the period between the revolutions of the mid-seventeenth century and the reign of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. It will take a broadly chronological approach to examining the relationship between monarchy and religion, beginning with the revolutionary moment of the execution of a divinely-anointed king (Charles I) and the expulsion of his Roman Catholic son (James II) forty years later. It will then
explore the protestant monarchy of the eighteenth century in a national and international context and the
crises of that monarchy in an increasingly multi-faith empire, concluding with the creation of a new
monarchical tradition under Queen Victoria. As such it enables us to explore one of the less studied
manifestations of Britain’s transition from ‘early modernity’ to ‘modernity’.
The course will be delivered through a series of informal lectures and seminar discussions. The former will
provide an interpretative, chronological overview. The latter will introduce students to original texts, facilitating
in-depth study of some key episodes. Seminar discussion also has an important methodological purpose,
allowing students to develop and refine their skills in the ‘close reading’ of historical documents.
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教員
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08C2118
FAS-CA4J15L3
特殊講義IV[イギリス研究コース]
Stephen John Charles Taylor
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2
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他学部履修
可
開講所属
教養学部
授業計画
The course will be divided into five topics. Each topic will be taught through an overview lecture (1 hour),
followed by two seminar discussion classes (1.5 hours each). These will be scheduled as follows:
Day 1:Session 1 (1.5 hours)
Organization of course and introductory lecture
Why monarchy and religion?
Session 2 (1 hour)
Lecture
Regicide and Restoration: Charles I and Charles II, 1649-1685
Session 3 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Day 2:Session 1 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Session 2 (1 hour)
Lecture
The revolution of 1688 and the creation of a protestant monarchy
Session 3 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Day 3Session 1 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Session 2 (1 hour)
Lecture
Anglo-Scottish Union and the Hanoverian dynasty 1707-60
Session 3 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Day 4Session 1 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Session 2 (1 hour)
Lecture:
The later Hanoverians: religion, the nation and the end of the ‘confessional state’
Session 3: (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Day 5Session 1 (1.5 hours)
Seminar
Session 2 (1 hour)
Lecture
Queen Victoria and the ‘invention of tradition’
Session 3 (1 hour)
Seminar
Session 4 (1 hour)
Seminar
授業の方法
The course will be delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars. The lectures – one on each day –
will last an hour and are intended to provide an analytical narrative to give students an outline and to identify the main interpretative problems. The seminars – two each day – will last 1.5 hours each. These sessions will provide
an opportunity for in-depth study of particular topics. Professor Taylor will lead class discussions of prescribed
original documents, which students will be expected to read in advance. Secondary readings will be
recommended to aid students in their understanding of the context of the documents.
成績評価方法
A commentary of 2,000-2,500 words, on one or two short extracts taken from the primary sources prescribed
for class discussion, discussing the interpretative problems, meaning(s), context and significance. Direct
quotations should be referenced and there should be a bibliography of works consulted.
履修上の注意
This course has at its core two objectives: to provide students with a broad understanding of the relationship
between monarchy and religion in England / Britain between the mid-seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, and to develop their ability to engage in close reading of historical manuscripts, to understand their meaning
and to assess their significance.
It is essential that those taking the course read the prescribed primary sources for each topic in advance of
the seminars. When doing so they should think about the questions that need to be asked in order to come to an understanding of the sources. It is important to come along to seminars with questions about the sources
at least as much (perhaps more than) with answers. Having some broad contextual understanding of the topics will be helpful. But it is worth remembering that historians should not be interpreting their primary sources in
the light of what they ‘know’ (or think that they know) from secondary sources. Rather, primary sources
provide the means for challenging what we think we know.
The assessment for this course (section 6) flows directly from the structure of the course and, specifically,
from the methodologies that will be learnt during the seminars. Writing a commentary of a text (or texts) may well be unfamiliar to many participants, but Professor Taylor will provide guidance how to approach the
exercise and what is expected.
There is a massive secondary literature on monarchy and religion in this period, though, perhaps surprisingly, relatively few works focus specifically on the relationship between the two. It would be entirely unrealistic to
expect students to do read more than a little of this literature, and the list above thus focuses on works that
are most relevant to the central themes of the course. Some reading of this literature before the course begins will clearly be valuable. During the course, priority should be given to reading the primary sources specified,
which will be the focus of class discussion, though all students should aim to read at least one of two of the
recommended secondary sources when preparing for seminars.
その他
General reading (not listed above)
Good shorter biographies of all the monarchs of this period (Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, George III, George IV, Wiliam IV and Victoria) can be found in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
National Worship: special worship since the Reformation, ed. Philip Williamson, Stephen Taylor, Natalie Mears and Alasdair Raffe (Church of England Record Society, 4 vols, Woodbridge, 2013-24) contains extended introductions
Roy Strong, Coronation. A history of kingship and the British monarchy (London, 2005). This volume although it only discusses coronations, is as close to a general survey of this subject as any other work
Ian Bradley, God save the queen. The spiritual dimension of monarchy (London, 2002; new edn, 2012)
David Hempton, Religion and political culture in Britain and Ireland: from the Glorious Revolution to the decline of empire (Cambridge, 1996)
Vernon Bogdanor, The monarchy and the constitution (1995), ch. 9, for a relatively brief survey of the situation at the beginning of the 21st century
Matthias Range, Music and ceremonial at British coronations: from James I to Elizabeth II (Cambridge 2012)
Andrew Lacey, The cult of King Charles the martyr (Woodbridge, 2003)
Anna Keay, The magnificent monarch. Charles II and the ceremonies of power (London, 2008)
Ronald Hutton, ‘The religion of Charles II’, in The Stuart court and Europe, ed. R. Malcolm Smuts (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 228–46
Tim Harris, Revolution. The great crisis of the British monarchy 1685–1720 (London, 2007), esp. ch. 5 and 9
Mark Goldie, ‘The political thought of the Anglican revolution’, in The revolutions of 1688, ed. Robert Beddard (Oxford, 1991)
Nigel Aston, ‘St Paul’s and the public culture of eighteenth-century Britain’, in St Paul’s: the cathedral church of London, 604–2004, ed. Derek Keene, Arthur Burns and Andrew Saint (New Haven, 2004)
Colin Kidd, Union and unionisms. Political thought in Scotland 1500–2000 (Cambridge, 2008)
Andrew Thompson, Britain, Hanover and the protestant interest 1688–1756 (Woodbridge, 2006)
Bob Harris and Christopher Whately, ‘“To solemnize his majesty’s birthday: new perspectives on loyalism in George II’s Britain’, History, 83 (1998), 397–419
Clarissa Campbell Orr, ‘The late Hanoverian court and the christian enlightenment’,
in Monarchy and religion. The transformation of royal culture in eighteenth-century Europe (Oxford, 2007), pp. 317–42
Marilyn Morris, The British monarchy and the French revolution (New Haven, 1998)
Michael Ledger-Lomas, Queen Victoria: this thorny crown (Oxford, 2021)
John Wolffe, ‘Protestantism, monarchy and the defence of Christian Britain 1837–2005’, in Callum Brown and Michael Snape (eds.), Secularisation in the Christian World (Farnham, 2010), 57-74
John Wolffe, Great Deaths. Grieving, Religion and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Oxford, 2000), chs. 1, 3-4, 7-9
