Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Yale
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Course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households;
local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the Tudor and Stuart monarchies; rebellion, popular protest and civil war; witchcraft; education, literacy and print culture;
crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government.
Resources: OpenCourseware from Yale, UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT along with many of the World's finest University's.
Language: English
Professors: Michael Williams
Units: 25
Lesson content
- Lec 1. General Introduction
- Lec 2. "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century
- Lec 3. Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles
- Lec 4. Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships
- Lec 5. "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System
- Lec 6. The Structures of Power
- Lec 7. Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics
- Lec 8. Reformation and Division, 1530-1558
- Lec 9. "Commodity" and "Commonweal": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
- Lec 10. The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
- Lec 11. The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation
- Lec 12. Economic Expansion, 1560-1640
- Lec 13. A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640
- Lec 14. Witchcraft and Magic
- Lec 15. Crime and the Law
- Lec 16. Popular Protest
- Lec 17. Education and Literacy
- Lec 18. Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians
- Lec 19. Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640
- Lec 20. Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646
- Lec 21. Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660
- Lec 22. An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688
- Lec 23. England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720
- Lec 24. Refashioning the State, 1688-1714
- Lec 25. Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination
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