The End of an Era: John E. Wills Jr’s 1688: A Global History as a Capstone

Authors

Nikolas O. Hoel, Northeastern Illinois University

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

John E. Wills Jr., A Global History, Medieval studies, Renaissance studies

Abstract

When designing a course, an appropriate question is how to end it. What great primary or secondary source will send students off into the larger academic world, outside the immediate class at hand with a better understanding of the period they had just been studying? The quandary is important in every medieval or early modern course; for example, does one end the medieval survey with Dante or Petrarch, or even Erasmus? The necessity for a capstone is no less great in classes that are entitled “England to 1688,” which populate many university course catalogues today. Many monographs and articles have been written about the Glorious Revolution, and many would serve as a good way to end a course on early English history.

Recommended Citation

Hoel, Nikolas O. (2014) "The End of an Era: John E. Wills Jr’s 1688: A Global History as a Capstone," Quidditas: Vol. 35, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol35/iss1/13