Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

This course provides an introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Through lectures it examines changing social structures, households and local communities, gender roles, economic development and urbanization, religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration, the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, rebellion, popular protest and civil war, witchcraft, education, literacy and print culture, crime and the law, poverty and social welfare, and the evolving structures of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government.