Articles

• The world of Shakespeare and the Metaphysical poets 1540-1660
  • British renaissance writers
  • Key events
    • Tudor monarchy to 1530
    • Catholic heritage in the 16th century
    • Tudor succession: Protestant v.s Catholic
    • Elizabethan court life
    • Stuart monarchy
    • Religious groupings under James I
    • English Civil War 1642-1650
  • Making sense of the tangible world
    • Renaissance
    • Astronomy & astrology
    • Alchemy
    • Impact of global exploration
    • Sixteenth century money and coinage
    • Early seventeenth century literary scene
  • Making sense of the intangible world
    • Reformation
    • The Bible in English Culture
    • A history of the church in England
    • Faith setting of Shakespeare's plays
    • Sixteenth Century Attitudes to ghosts
    • What is a Human?
    • Chain of being
    • Nature and nurture
    • Divine right of monarchs