Learn how England transformed itself from a medieval backwater into the first modern state in this sweeping course on one of the most interesting periods in history.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: England 1485-1714, the First Modern Country
- 02: The Land and Its People in 1485-I
- 03: The Land and Its People in 1485-II
- 04: The Land and Its People in 1485-III
- 05: Medieval Prelude-1377-1455
- 06: Medieval Prelude-1455-85
- 07: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty-1485-97
- 08: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty-1497-1509
- 09: Young King Hal-1509-27
- 10: The King's Great Matter-1527-30
- 11: The Break from Rome-1529-36
- 12: A Tudor Revolution-1536-47
- 13: The Last Years of Henry VIII-1540-47
- 14: Edward VI-1547-53
- 15: Mary I-1553-58
- 16: Young Elizabeth-1558
- 17: The Elizabethan Settlement-1558-68
- 18: Set in a Dangerous World-1568-88
- 19: Heart and Stomach of a Queen-1588-1603
- 20: The Land and Its People in 1603
- 21: Private Life-The Elite
- 22: Private Life-The Commoners
- 23: The Ties that Bound
- 24: Order and Disorder
- 25: Towns, Trade, and Colonization
- 26: London
- 27: The Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
- 28: Establishing the Stuart Dynasty-1603-25
- 29: The Ascendancy of Buckingham-1614-28
- 30: Religion and Local Control-1628-37
- 31: Crisis of the Three Kingdoms-1637-42
- 32: The Civil Wars-1642-49
- 33: The Search for a Settlement-1649-53
- 34: Cromwellian England-1653-60
- 35: The Restoration Settlement-1660-70
- 36: The Failure of the Restoration-1670-78
- 37: The Popish Plot and Exclusion-1678-85
- 38: A Catholic Restoration? 1685-88
- 39: The Glorious Revolution-1688-89
- 40: King William's War-1689-92
- 41: King William's War-1692-1702
- 42: Queen Anne and the Rage of Party-1702
- 43: Queen Anne's War-1702-10
- 44: Queen Anne's Peace-1710-14
- 45: Hanoverian Epilogue-1714-30
- 46: The Land and Its People in 1714-I
- 47: The Land and Its People in 1714-II
- 48: The Meaning of English History-1485-1714
Taught by
Robert Bucholz