1. In four sentences, please give a summary of the geographic reach, chronology, and scope of Simon Schama’s history of Britain. What is the main topic that it addresses?
2. What is the relationship between Anne Boleyn and the Reformation in England?
3. What are the results of the reformation in England? What was the relationship between the Reformation in England and that in Germany?
4. What do you see as the main historical driver in the story that Schama tells? Does the Reformation result from political implementations of philosophical or religious ideals, or does it result from accidents, the pettiness of rulers, and their personal interests? Or some sort of mixture of the two?
5. What, according to Schama, was the fate of Catholicism in England?
6. In one to three sentences, evaluate this video/documentary? Does it present history in an engaging way? How so, how not? What additional questions might you have about the stories Schama tells?
Use this link as a source, I will provide the other 2 sources as attachments.
http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/social-science/HistoryOfBritain-SimonSchama/episode-06.html
