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    The document provides an overview of major historical developments and periods in England from the Renaissance to the Victorian era. It covers topics like the rise of the Tudor monarchy under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the English Renaissance and Shakespeare, the English Civil War and Cromwell's protectorate, the Enlightenment, Britain losing its American colonies, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and political reforms in the 19th century including the reform acts. The document aims to give a broad survey of English history across several centuries through examining influential monarchs, cultural and intellectual movements, economic changes, and shifts in political systems.

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    The document provides an overview of major historical developments and periods in England from the Renaissance to the Victorian era. It covers topics like the rise of the Tudor monarchy under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the English Renaissance and Shakespeare, the English Civil War and Cromwell's protectorate, the Enlightenment, Britain losing its American colonies, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and political reforms in the 19th century including the reform acts. The document aims to give a broad survey of English history across several centuries through examining influential monarchs, cultural and intellectual movements, economic changes, and shifts in political systems.

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    The document provides an overview of major historical developments and periods in England from the Renaissance to the Victorian era. It covers topics like the rise of the Tudor monarchy under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the English Renaissance and Shakespeare, the English Civil War and Cromwell's protectorate, the Enlightenment, Britain losing its American colonies, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and political reforms in the 19th century including the reform acts. The document aims to give a broad survey of English history across several centuries through examining influential monarchs, cultural and intellectual movements, economic changes, and shifts in political systems.

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    1.

    The Renaissance -> general features


    -as a Pan-European movement
    -social and political circumstances in northern Italy (secularization of power)
    -multiple aspects: social, political, cultural, religious
    -the religious reformation
    2. The new monarchy of the Tudors
    -introduction: general considerations, Renaissance
    - explain the concept: new monarchy comparative approach (Middle Ages
    vs. the new monarchy)
    - Henry III, Henry VIII
    3. Local institutions in Tudor England
    -general context + the new relevant classes: gentry & yeomanry
    -the institutions
    -considerations about the local administration and national administration
    + mentality
    4. Henry VIII and the religious reform
    -obsession with dynastic succession
    -comparison between Henrys reform and Martin Luthers: the nature, the dogmatic
    reflection, intentions
    -transubstantiation vs. consubstantiation
    5. Elizabeth I Queen of Renaissance biography
    -personality, nature of the rule, archetype Renaissance Princess
    -meritocracy
    6. Elizabeth I and the conflict with Spain
    -causes behind the conflict: Spains colonial possessions, Marys execution
    -development: the Great Armada 1588
    -consequences: Englands rise

    7. Elizabethan culture
    -differences between the English Renaissance and the European Renaissance
    -general consumption vs. elitist
    -translations, poetry, prose, drama, Shakespeare, Lyly
    8. Civil War, Cromwell success and failure
    -causes: mutual lack of understanding, the inflexibility of the early Stuarts: the king
    is the law
    -development: common wealth and protectorate periods, bishops war
    -zero outcome, the restoration
    - Cromwells dilemma
    9. The Enlightenment
    -definition
    -general features
    -development of science
    -Descartes method: Cartesian reduction
    - Newton
    -literature: Swift, Defoe
    -political philosophy: Hobbes, Locke
    10. The lost of Britains American colonies
    -causes: the 7 years war, taxation dispute
    -development: the Boston Tea Party, the War of Independence (with French help)
    -consequences: USA, increase in commercial exchanges, collapse of the French
    monarchy
    11. Revolutions in agriculture and industry
    -temporal framework: mid 18th century
    -agricultural revolution: enclosures, crop rotation, social consequences, cheap
    labor

    -industrial revolution: developments in science


    12. Political reforms in Victorian England
    -the right to vote
    -19th century transition without revolution
    -the 3 reform acts

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