Elizabethan England

3 units · Undergraduate

Queen Elizabeth inherited a realm on the brink, torn by religious, economic, and political crises. By her death, she had forged stability, defeated the Spanish Armada, and presided over a cultural renaissance. This course explores an era of Shakespeare and spies, witch hunts and explorers, plague and pageantry?where ordinary people navigated the perils and possibilities of a contradictory age.