"Lec 18 -Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians"Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson reviews the conflicts which developed within the Church of England in the early seventeenth century and played a role in the growing tensions which led to the English civil wars. Wrightson begins by describing the 'Jacobethan consensus' which largely prevailed throughout the reign of James I, characterized by broad-based conformity and adherence to Calvinist doctrine. However, this consensus was strained by the local activism of Puritans in many areas. The success of these Puritan efforts at local reformation was uneven across the country and largely depended on whether Puritan clerics were able to secure the support of secular magistrates in order to enforce godly discipline. He next considers the Arminian movement (anti-Calvinist in doctrine and with strong elements of ritualism and clericalism) which destroyed the Jacobethan consensus. He traces how the rise of Arminianism resulted in the polarization and politicization of religion with Charles I's appointment of Arminian clerics (notably William Laud) to positions of control of the church and their repression of Puritan opponents. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Jacobethan Consensus 07:12 - Chapter 2. Puritan Reformation 25:59 - Chapter 3. Arminian Reaction 42:18 - Chapter 4. Results Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2009.
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Lec 3 - Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles
Lec 4 - Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships
Lec 6 - The Structures of Power
Lec 7 - Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics
Lec 8 -Reformation and Division, 1530-1558
Lec 10 -The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
Lec 12 -Economic Expansion, 1560-1640
Lec 13 - A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640
Lec 17 - Education and Literacy
Lec 19 -Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640
Lec 20 -Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646
Lec 21 - Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660
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