Civil War England 1600-1688

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

In the 1640s and 1650s England witnessed brutal civil war leading to the beheading of King Charles I, followed by a decade of revolutionary Republican government. This course uses lectures and discussions of documents and texts from the time to examine the origins and aftermath of these events from the top down, through Monarchs and Parliaments, and from the bottom up, through the lives and beliefs of ordinary men and women.