HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts
Class Sessions
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1. General Introduction |
2. "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century |
3. Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles |
4. Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships |
5. "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System |
6. The Structures of Power |
7. Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics |
8. Reformation and Division, 1530-1558 |
9. "Commodity" and "Commonwealth": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560 |
10. The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans |
11. The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation |
12. Economic Expansion, 1560-1640 |
13. A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640 |
14. Witchcraft and Magic |
15. Crime and the Law |
16. Popular Protest |
17. Education and Literacy |
18. Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians |
19. Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640 |
20. Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646 |
21. Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660 |
22. An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688 |
23. England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720 |
24. Refashioning the State, 1688-1714 |
25. Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination |