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Instructor
Name
Keith Wrightson
Lecture Description
Professor Wrightson traces the major economic expansion of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Despite occasional crises of mortality, population levels rose steadily, particularly in urban areas. Increased population levels resulted in enhanced agricultural and industrial output. Professor Wrightson reviews the extension of the cultivated area, forms of agricultural improvement and trends in enclosure. He then examines urban growth, the expansion of traditional industries such as cloth-making, and the development of new ones such as coal production. He ends by discussing the intensification of internal commerce and the expansion in foreign trade which took place during the Despite economic expansion and a greatly increased national income, however, prices continued to rise, real wages remained depressed, and the problem of poverty appears to have grown.
Reading assignment:
Wrightson, English Society, chapter 5
Course Index
- General Introduction
- "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century
- Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles
- Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships
- "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System
- The Structures of Power
- Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics
- Reformation and Division, 1530-1558
- "Commodity" and "Commonwealth": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
- The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
- The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation
- Economic Expansion, 1560-1640
- A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640
- Witchcraft and Magic
- Crime and the Law
- Popular Protest
- Education and Literacy
- Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians
- Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640
- Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646
- Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660
- An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688
- England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720
- Refashioning the State, 1688-1714
- Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination
Course Description
This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the Tudor and Stuart monarchies; rebellion, popular protest and civil war; witchcraft; education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government.
Course Structure:
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2009.
