Tudor-Stuart England

(Not open to students who have taken HIE 321.)The advent of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII, the divorce, and the church; Queen Elizabeth's government and the church; Elizabethan society; poverty and vagrancy in the Tudor state; the divine right of kings and mass political attitudes in early Stuart England; the origins of the civil war; the execution of Charles I; Oliver Cromwell and the saints; restoration England; and the Glorious Revolution.