2017-2018-1

AMEBA71-4

_Előadás, _Kollokvium

AMEBA7, Any Course Lecture (Excluding Language) - including BAT-related courses

AMEBA7, Any Course Lecture (Excluding Language) - including BAT-related courses

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

heti 2.00

3

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This survey course explores the cultural, social, religious and political history of Britain from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Tudor-Stuart period witnessed the establishment of the Church of England, ‘the varieties of religious experience’, the rise of the modern science, the growth of literacy, witchcraft trials, the Civil War as well as the first conflicts between the Whigs and Tories. It was not only the age of Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell but also of William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Locke, Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren. It pays attention to the daily life of people and the way they understood the world around them, as much as to the fundamental historical processes, events and the shifts in mental attitudes. The main themes to be considered during this lecture include the Reformation and the creation of the Church of England; religious contest and identities in Elizabethan England; the early Stuarts and the three kingdoms; civil war and revolution; Restoration and religion; the commons and the aristocracy; households, families and gender; witchcraft, magic and the occult; the Scientific Revolution; education and the culture of print; what is the best form of government?; the Glorious Revolution; Britain, Empire and the World.