Choose one of the following topics that you will research online and in the library and present in the form of a single-page paper due in class Monday, Sept. 15th. Bring 28 copies to distribute that day. The paper should summarize the main names, terms, dates, sources, or other memorable facts of your topic. Be sure it includes a bibliographic note (standard form of citation, see Chicago Manual of Style) of at least one good print and one online source.
The Book of Common Prayer and the liturgy of the Anglican Church Jessie D.
The Bible in English from the Geneva Bible to the Authorized Version (KJV)
Reformation Theology and its Aftermath in the English Church Padara T.
The English Church in Milton�s Youth: Laud and the bishops vs. the puritans Daniel S.
Spenser and Romance
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Charlamagne B.
Cavalier Poets: Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, et al.
Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Marvell, et al.
Donne�s Sermons and the Sermon Generally
Cambridge University in the Early 17th Century Christian W.
The Tudor and Stuart Court: entertainments such as the masque
The Epic as Milton Knew It: the ancients, Dante, Tasso, et al. Kacey B.
Renaissance Humanism Especially in Italy: Petrarch, Boccacio, et al. Sarah K.
Painting and Portraiture in Milton's Time Kelsey G.
Social Structures from Peerage to Peasantry Mikayla L.
Economics, Travel, Trade, and Commerce
The Grand Tour in the 17th Century: esp. Milton's Codi J.
London in the 17th Century: plague and fire Billi L.
Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution Pierce G.
Magna Carta and Parliament Nathan P.
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Church History Zack A.
The sonnet from Sidney to Donne
Ovid in the English Renaissance
Printing and Bookselling in England from Caxton to Milton Sapphire F.
Elegy and Pastoral Elegy from Theocritus to Milton
The Scottish Chaucerians Andrew C.
Calvinism and the Scottish Church: Presbyterianism Chad P.
Guy Fawkes and Anti-Catholic Sentiment Derek P.
Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
Sir Thomas Browne and English Prose Style
Sir Francis Bacon and the New Science
The Theatre in London from 1608-1645 Brianna O.
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory Johnny F.
The Great Chain of Being Todd J.
The Rise of Astronomy: Ptolemy to Galileo Abi B.
The Structure of the Anglican Church in Milton�s Youth
The Rise of Modern Warfare and the Structure of the English Army up to the Civil Wars Thomas S.
The Tudor-Stuart Succession
Medicine and Disease in Milton�s Age Trisha P.
The Country Home and Landscape Garden, 1600-1650
English Music in the Early Seventeenth Century: Byrd, Tallis, Lawes
The English Navy from the Defeat of the Spanish Armada until Milton�s Death