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

- Institution: Yale University
- Department: History
- Teacher: Keith E. Wrightson
- Term: Fall 2009
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-251)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-251#syllabus)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/012c073fee89) (Audio)
2. ["The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/75f831e79b07) (Audio)
3. [Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/5c9a2b8023b5) (Audio)
4. [Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/4db98334319c) (Audio)
5. ["Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/a73a1775e260) (Audio)
6. [The Structures of Power](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/eba17ef8623e) (Audio)
7. [Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/f93e46b17c4c) (Audio)
8. [Reformation and Division, 1530-1558](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/7ab32bedb053) (Audio)
9. ["Commodity" and "Commonwealth": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/89af8fa953dd) (Audio)
10. [The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/bd606eccfc9a) (Audio)
11. [The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/3bebb94dd3fd) (Audio)
12. [Economic Expansion, 1560-1640](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/9b382cbd4912) (Audio)
13. [A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/f7661923bdd9) (Audio)
14. [Witchcraft and Magic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/db72f53481da) (Audio)
15. [Crime and the Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/4e6d3472b42a) (Audio)
16. [Popular Protest](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/e807cd47bab5) (Audio)
17. [Education and Literacy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/3241f09dfbb2) (Audio)
18. [Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/6145229d6575) (Audio)
19. [Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/ed257e045c49) (Audio)
20. [Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/5c80e224fed7) (Audio)
21. [Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/6da4414b4bb5) (Audio)
22. [An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/43e3f8221f1f) (Audio)
23. [England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/fe4982e17aaa) (Audio)
24. [Refashioning the State, 1688-1714](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/3d00e5bcabc9) (Audio)
25. [Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-251/b72cc1554d65) (Audio)