Early Modern Britain, 1485-1714

Harvard Extension School

HIST E-1402

Section 1

CRN 26549

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The history of Tudor and Stuart Britain is filled with dramatic personalities and frequent catastrophes. It is no wonder that the period has inspired so many novels, films, and television shows. In addition to bodice rippings and beheadings, however, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries also witnessed the formation of British political, religious, intellectual, and economic institutions that would eventually be exported across the world. This course surveys these developments with special attention to the ways men and women sought to imagine new worlds in times of instability. Topics include the English and Scottish reformations, magical and scientific cultures, Puritanism and Arminianism, the civil wars, the growth of the public sphere, and the evolving British political constitution.

Registration Closes: January 23, 2025
Credits: 4

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Term

Spring Term 2025

Part of Term

Full Term

Format

Online

Credit Status

Graduate, Noncredit, Undergraduate

Section Status

Cancelled

Instructor Info

Meeting Info

1/27 to 5/17

Participation Option: Online Asynchronous

In online asynchronous courses, you are not required to attend class at a particular time. Instead you can complete the course work on your own schedule each week.

Deadlines

Last day to register: January 23, 2025

Additional Time Commitments

Required sections to be arranged.

Notes

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences companion course History 1029. Registered students can ordinarily live stream the lectures Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00-4:15 pm starting January 27 or they can watch them on demand. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Class sessions for this course may include students enrolled in the FAS companion course. Accordingly, when you participate in live class sessions, you will do so alongside both Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and FAS students. If you participate in a way that causes you to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to DCE students enrolled in this course or FAS students enrolled in the companion course, according to the policies of the two schools on accessing recordings of class sessions.

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CRN Section # Participation Option(s) Instructor Section Status Meets Term Dates
26549 1 Online Asynchronous Cancelled Jan 27 to May 17

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