HIST 3490

Renaissance England, 1485 - 1660

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

If England from the time of Henry VIII to the beheading of Charles I is famous for its great cultural achievements, those achievements were products of and meditations upon a profound crisis of political and religious authority. This course considers the nature of that crisis and responses to it in the realms of imaginative literature, practical politics and revolutionary polemic. We will examine the impact of the Protestant Reformation and Puritanism, cultural assumptions surrounding kingship and tyranny, the construction of a rhetoric of political dissent around issues of sexuality and corruption, competing understandings of the social order and social control, political and religious radicalism during the English Revolution and the beginnings of modern scientific and political thought.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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