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Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

Keith E. Wrightson · Yale University

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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.

Lectures

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

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Institution
Yale University
Department
History
Teacher
Keith E. Wrightson
Term
Fall 2009
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
History
Source
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Licence
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