Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707)

(7.5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module explores the issues raised by the unification of Scotland, England, and Ireland under one monarch in 1603. Following a review of sixteenth-century concepts of Britain, the course investigates the implications of the Union of the Crowns throughout the seventeenth century. It examines the development of proto-British institutions in the Jacobean age and their decline in the Carolinian era. It also assesses the implications of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Cromwellian conquest of Scotland, and the Restoration regime on Scottish society. Through an examination of these conflicts, this module asks students to engage critically with the various religious, political, and ideological struggles that culminated in the Treaty of Union of 1707.