HIST 251
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts
Fall 2009
Topics
- General Introduction
- "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century
- Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles
- Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships
- "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System
- The Structures of Power
- Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics
- Reformation and Division, 1530-1558
- "Commodity" and "Commonwealth": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
- The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
- The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation
- Economic Expansion, 1560-1640
- A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640
- Witchcraft and Magic
- Crime and the Law
- Popular Protest
- Education and Literacy
- Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians
- Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640
- Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646
- Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660
- An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688
- England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720
- Refashioning the State, 1688-1714
- Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination
Readings
- Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power . New York: Routledge, 1989.
- Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: Origins of Empire . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Cust, Richard and Ann Hughes, eds. The English Civil War . London: Arnold, 1997.
- Gunn, S.J. Early Tudor Government, 1485-1558 . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
- Guy, John, ed. The Tudor Monarchy . London: Arnold, 1997.
- Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations. Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Kishlansky, Mark. A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 . New York: Penguin, 1996.
- Reay, Barry. Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750 . New York: Longman, 1998.
- Slack, Paul. "The English Urban Landscape" in The Urban Setting (English Urban History 1500-1780). Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1977.
- Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England . New York: Longman, 1988.
- Wrightson, Keith. English Society, 1580-1680 . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.