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A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts

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Learn how England transformed itself from a medieval backwater into the first modern state in this sweeping course on one of the most interesting periods in history.

Syllabus

  • 01: England 1485–1714, the First Modern Country
  • 02: The Land and Its People in 1485: I
  • 03: The Land and Its People in 1485: II
  • 04: The Land and Its People in 1485: III
  • 05: Medieval Prelude: 1377–1455
  • 06: Medieval Prelude: 1455–1485
  • 07: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty: 1485–1497
  • 08: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty: 1497–1509
  • 09: Young King Hal: 1509–1527
  • 10: The King’s Great Matter: 1527–1530
  • 11: The Break from Rome: 1529–1536
  • 12: A Tudor Revolution: 1536–1547
  • 13: The Last Years of Henry VIII: 1540–1547
  • 14: Edward VI: 1547–1553
  • 15: Mary I: 1553–1558
  • 16: Young Elizabeth: 1558
  • 17: The Elizabethan Settlement: 1558–1568
  • 18: Set in a Dangerous World: 1568–1588
  • 19: Heart and Stomach of a Queen: 1588–1603
  • 20: The Land and Its People in 1603
  • 21: Private Life: The Elite
  • 22: Private Life: The Commoners
  • 23: The Ties That Bound
  • 24: Order and Disorder
  • 25: Towns, Trade, and Colonization
  • 26: London
  • 27: The Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
  • 28: Establishing the Stuart Dynasty: 1603–1625
  • 29: The Ascendancy of Buckingham: 1614–1628
  • 30: Religion and Local Control: 1628–1637
  • 31: Crisis of the Three Kingdoms: 1637–1642
  • 32: The Civil Wars: 1642–1649
  • 33: The Search for a Settlement: 1649–1653
  • 34: Cromwellian England: 1653–1660
  • 35: The Restoration Settlement: 1660–1670
  • 36: The Failure of the Restoration: 1670–1678
  • 37: The Popish Plot and Exclusion: 1678–1685
  • 38: A Catholic Restoration? 1685–1688
  • 39: The Glorious Revolution: 1688–1689
  • 40: King William’s War: 1689–1692
  • 41: King William’s War: 1692–1702
  • 42: Queen Anne and the Rage of Party: 1702
  • 43: Queen Anne’s War: 1702–1710
  • 44: Queen Anne’s Peace: 1710–1714
  • 45: Hanoverian Epilogue: 1714–1730
  • 46: The Land and Its People in 1714: I
  • 47: The Land and Its People in 1714: II
  • 48: The Meaning of English History: 1485–1714
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Robert Bucholz

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