HIST 251: Early Modern England
HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (Fall 2009, Open Yale Courses). Instructor: Professor Keith E. Wrightson. This 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. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 01 - General Introduction |
| Lecture 02 - "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century |
| Lecture 03 - Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles |
| Lecture 04 - Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships |
| Lecture 05 - "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System |
| Lecture 06 - The Structures of Power |
| Lecture 07 - Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics |
| Lecture 08 - Reformation and Division, 1530-1558 |
| Lecture 09 - "Commodity" and "Commonweal": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560 |
| Lecture 10 - The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans |
| Lecture 11 - The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation |
| Lecture 12 - Economic Expansion, 1560-1640 |
| Lecture 13 - A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640 |
| Lecture 14 - Witchcraft and Magic |
| Lecture 15 - Crime and the Law |
| Lecture 16 - Popular Protest |
| Lecture 17 - Education and Literacy |
| Lecture 18 - Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians |
| Lecture 19 - Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640 |
| Lecture 20 - Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646 |
| Lecture 21 - Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660 |
| Lecture 22 - An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688 |
| Lecture 23 - England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720 |
| Lecture 24 - Refashioning the State, 1688-1714 |
| Lecture 25 - Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination |
| References |
HIST 251: Early Modern England
Instructor: Professor Keith E. Wrightson. Class Sessions. Downloads. Syllabus. This 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.
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