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England, Tudors-Stuarts First Impression
Dec. 29th, 2005 08:14 amHaving given up on the Wars of Religion (well, I read the liner notes), I listened to the first class of "History of England, Tudors Through Stuarts" today by Prof. Robert Bucholz. It's a pretty ambitious class, with 48 lectures covering not just the royalty, but a social history as well.
Bucholz, who has a generic but very clear voice, starts by defending his nationality; he's an American who got his degree at Oxford, and feels that outsider status has given him a clearer view of things and a slightly more favorable look at the common people of the time. The thesis of the course is that the Tudors and Stuarts oversaw not just England's rise from backwater to world power, but also the development of the first truely modern society.
This looks like it's going to be a good one.
Bucholz, who has a generic but very clear voice, starts by defending his nationality; he's an American who got his degree at Oxford, and feels that outsider status has given him a clearer view of things and a slightly more favorable look at the common people of the time. The thesis of the course is that the Tudors and Stuarts oversaw not just England's rise from backwater to world power, but also the development of the first truely modern society.
This looks like it's going to be a good one.
