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Teaching Company - A History of England, Tudor to Stuarts
Decided I wanted to learn more about Tudors right now, not Huguenots, so have bailed on Religious Wars 6 lectures in. I'll get back to it later. Right now, I'm going to listen to this one at least up through James. (Charles, Charles, and James will be decided on when I get there.)
It's taught by Prof. Bucholz of Loyola, who has a healthy ego on him and is currently (faintly defensively) explaining why an American can understand English history. Since I never thought that any nationality was an impediment to learning about any chunk of history, methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. His voice is clear, baritone, and easy to follow without being soporific. Now he's made a passing mention of the video, I guess they showed a picture of one of the Charleses. (He talks so much about why I'd want to study this period - something I already know because I bought this class for a reason - that I've skipped ahead to lecture 2. Yes, now he's stopped dropping hints and gotten down to the meat.)
Okay, I have just forgiven him the entire Lecture 1 for this line in Lecture 2, about the tie between a culture and the landscape the culture lives on, specifically, the English Channel: "The water that separates England from Europe... has acted as the barrier protecting England from infenction and the hand of war* - basically, rabies and the French."
The course book is done almost entirely in outlines, with questions to consider and specific book chapters listed at the end of each outline.
The course follows this general path:
Lectures 1-4: Description of England & it's relationship to the rest of the British Isles.
Lectures 5-19: Tudors
Lectures 20-27: Social and cultural history of Elizabethan & Jacobean England
Lectures 28-44: Stuarts
Lecture 45: Hanoverian succession
Lectures 46-47: England at the dawn of the 19th Century
Lecture 48: Significance of this period on English and American history.
*From the "Sceptered Isle" monologue from Richard II.
It's taught by Prof. Bucholz of Loyola, who has a healthy ego on him and is currently (faintly defensively) explaining why an American can understand English history. Since I never thought that any nationality was an impediment to learning about any chunk of history, methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. His voice is clear, baritone, and easy to follow without being soporific. Now he's made a passing mention of the video, I guess they showed a picture of one of the Charleses. (He talks so much about why I'd want to study this period - something I already know because I bought this class for a reason - that I've skipped ahead to lecture 2. Yes, now he's stopped dropping hints and gotten down to the meat.)
Okay, I have just forgiven him the entire Lecture 1 for this line in Lecture 2, about the tie between a culture and the landscape the culture lives on, specifically, the English Channel: "The water that separates England from Europe... has acted as the barrier protecting England from infenction and the hand of war* - basically, rabies and the French."
The course book is done almost entirely in outlines, with questions to consider and specific book chapters listed at the end of each outline.
The course follows this general path:
Lectures 1-4: Description of England & it's relationship to the rest of the British Isles.
Lectures 5-19: Tudors
Lectures 20-27: Social and cultural history of Elizabethan & Jacobean England
Lectures 28-44: Stuarts
Lecture 45: Hanoverian succession
Lectures 46-47: England at the dawn of the 19th Century
Lecture 48: Significance of this period on English and American history.
*From the "Sceptered Isle" monologue from Richard II.