Course Description
Religious, political, and cultural upheavals under the Stuart monarchs, 1603-1704.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Additional research and/or papers are normally required for
graduate level coursework.
Athena Title
STUART ENGLAND
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course traces the interacting trajectories of conflicts in church and state throughout the tumultuous century of Stuart reign in England. Topics include the formations of puritanism and Anglicanism, monarchy and the fortunes of Parliament, political theories and political practices, the beginnings of the "Age of Reason," and the emergence of the proto-modern imperial English state at the end of this period. More broadly students will learn of different perspectives on how both religion and government are understood and how they interact with each other. They will learn how to understand historical actors and events in their own terms, not in the terms of a later period. At the skills level, students will read and analyze both orally and in written form a broad range of primary and secondary sources.
Topical Outline
• English social structure • Religion and puritanism • Monarch and government • James I • Charles I • Civil Wars • Interregnum, religious and political developments • Restoration of Charles II • Religion, Natural Science, Astrology • Exclusion Crisis • John Locke and the Whigs • James II • Glorious Revolution, political and religious consequences • Augustan Age