Unit name | The Tudor World |
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Unit code | HIST20119 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Hailwood |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The Tudor period (1485-1603) has long fascinated both historians and the general public. During this period, England broke with Rome, Wales became fully integrated into the British state, Ireland was suppressed and Scotland brought into amity. At the same time, England as a whole saw new prosperity, with its population doubling and its commercial horizons expanding. By the early seventeenth century Britain had started down the track that would turn it into the world's leading maritime and imperial power. This unit will explore the world the Tudors created: discussing the politics of the period, the social / economic changes and the reasons for our enduring fascination with its events and personalities.
Successful students will be able to:
Weekly:
1 x two-hour lecture
1 x one-hour seminar
1 x ten-minute presentation (25%) [ILOs 1, 6]
1 x 2-hour exam (75%) [ILOs 1-5]
Tatiana C. String & Marcus Bull (eds.), Tudorism': Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth C'entury (2011)
John Guy, Tudor England (1988)
Cathy Shrank, 'Crafting the nation', in Keith Wrightson, A Social History of England 1500-1750 (2017)
Peter Marshall, Reformation England 1480-1642 (2012)
Nicholas Canny (ed.), The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century (1998)
Hilary Mantel, The Reith Lectures (BBC, 2017)