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Europe and the Wars of Religion
The Tudor self-study begins with Lecture 1 (Ideologies of Political Obedience) of Europe and the Wars of Religion (1500-1700). Professor Sreenivasan of Brandeis has a slightly prissy, very clear tenor voice; its easy to hear what he's saying and he seems to have an engineer's habit of being very precise about what he's talking about and why. (As opposed to Mozart Guy, who is talking about Mozart because anyone with any sense loves, loves, loves Mozart and wants to know the real deal.) I almost missed it, but he's also got a sly, dry sense of humor that surfaces at odd moments:
"The final aspect we are going to look at is technology. Technologies of resistance, technologies of repression. Now, when I talk about technology, I suppose what immediately comes to mind are tools. Things like guns. Large artillery. Long pointy sticks."
This is the first class with suggested pages for the suggested readings in the coursebook. I'm not going to go get a copy of The European Dynastic States 1494-1600 by Bonney, partially because the only copy on half.com costs $30, but mostly because in the long run, I'll be focusing on the Tudors and I have reading of my own.
The short-term goal is to finish this class and one of the Henry books by the end of the month. At 2 lectures a day, I can finish the Teaching Company class in 12 days. (Then I'll take History of England, Tudors-Stuarts and Henry VIII as listening on the drive to Stratford. With soundtracks in case I get bored and want to sing along.) If I finish the book I'm reading this week, I'll have sent in 3 reviews to RtE, leaving me free to read Harry Potter and then a Henry book before it's time to review the next book for I Love a Mystery and the new month's cycle starts for RtE.
The end goal of all of this is to:
1) Become well-rounded on English history from the rise of Henry VIII through the end of Elizabeth's reign.
2) Pitch/write multiple articles on the subject to Renaissance magazine.
And on a slightly related note, in an effort to exercise and have non-food rewards, I've promised myself that if I exercise for half-hour increments to Batman TAS v4 and Scrubs S1 (which I have), I can buy the DVDs for Teaching Company's "Great Artists of the Renaissance" and "A History of Impressionism."
"The final aspect we are going to look at is technology. Technologies of resistance, technologies of repression. Now, when I talk about technology, I suppose what immediately comes to mind are tools. Things like guns. Large artillery. Long pointy sticks."
This is the first class with suggested pages for the suggested readings in the coursebook. I'm not going to go get a copy of The European Dynastic States 1494-1600 by Bonney, partially because the only copy on half.com costs $30, but mostly because in the long run, I'll be focusing on the Tudors and I have reading of my own.
The short-term goal is to finish this class and one of the Henry books by the end of the month. At 2 lectures a day, I can finish the Teaching Company class in 12 days. (Then I'll take History of England, Tudors-Stuarts and Henry VIII as listening on the drive to Stratford. With soundtracks in case I get bored and want to sing along.) If I finish the book I'm reading this week, I'll have sent in 3 reviews to RtE, leaving me free to read Harry Potter and then a Henry book before it's time to review the next book for I Love a Mystery and the new month's cycle starts for RtE.
The end goal of all of this is to:
1) Become well-rounded on English history from the rise of Henry VIII through the end of Elizabeth's reign.
2) Pitch/write multiple articles on the subject to Renaissance magazine.
And on a slightly related note, in an effort to exercise and have non-food rewards, I've promised myself that if I exercise for half-hour increments to Batman TAS v4 and Scrubs S1 (which I have), I can buy the DVDs for Teaching Company's "Great Artists of the Renaissance" and "A History of Impressionism."