Robert Bucholz
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, two successive advisors to the boy-king (only nine when he takes the throne) increasingly push the country toward Protestantism, including an attempt to alter the succession. But when Edward dies, the country still rallies to the Catholic heir, Mary Tudor.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, the necessities of the war with France bring about a fundamental shift in the respective roles of England's two political parties and irrevocably extend the reach of Parliament's power and role in the constitution.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follow an aging king as he attempts to avoid invasion by the Catholic powers, and to balance the demands of Protestant reformers with his own desire for a traditional Church (under his command) that would retain many Catholic practices.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This episode examines Henry's efforts to make England's government more efficient, less expensive, and more responsive to his wishes by following three old principles of medieval kingship: The king must be strong, he must govern with consent, and he must live "of his own" (within a budget).
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Examine the economic strategy that enabled victory over France, the Act of Settlement that solved England's succession question (at least on paper) and moved the nation closer to constitutional monarchy, and the two royal deaths that brought England to the brink of yet another war with France. It is a war that will have to be fought by a new ruler after a hunting accident claims William's life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Though the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 ends the war and lays the groundwork for the British Empire and England's commercial and military dominance of Europe for the rest of the century, issues of religion and succession are still in play when Queen Anne's lifelong fragile health finally fails, and the last of the Stuart monarchs dies.
69) Mary I - 1553-58
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Failing to realize that her people have rallied to her only because she is the rightful heir and not because she is Catholic, "Bloody Mary" attempts to ally with the Spanish Empire and undo the Reformation at tremendous human cost.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Examine the short and unpopular reign of James II and his attempts to restore toleration for Catholics. Unpopular though he is, no one contemplates rebellion, until the surprise birth of a Catholic heir leads seven prominent noblemen to invite invasion by the Protestant William, Prince of Orange.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Parliament and the army ask Cromwell to administer England as Lord Protector of the realm. But after five years of effective rule, Cromwell dies, unleashing a period of instability that leads to the negotiated restoration of the Stuart monarchy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Explore the Tudor-Stuart era: a captivating examination of the 229-year period from 1485 - 1714 during which England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into what has been called the first modern society. In making that transformation, England became the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Here, as England moves into the eighteenth century, the face of artistic and intellectual life changes as primary patronage of the arts passes from the Church and court, replaced by noble and popular sponsorship of architecture, literature, music, and painting.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, the restoration settlements in Church and State seem to turn the clock back, with the king dependent on Parliament, the Church of England reestablished and Puritans made outlaws, and defeat at the hands of the Dutch plunging the nation into crisis.