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| Professor S. Sayegh | office: FO2-113; (562) 985-5428 |
| email: ssayeghc@csulb.edu | office hours: TR, 8:15 - 9:00; R 5-6 pm and by appt. |
The Tudors and the Stuarts have a checkered history. When we think of the Tudors we think of Henry VIII and his insatiable sexual appetite, Queen Mary's Bloody intolerance of Protestants, and Queen Elizabeth's Royal mystique. When we think of the Stuarts, we often think of kingly incompetence, bumbled diplomacy, one failed Revolution and one glorious one. But there is more to the Tudor-Stuart period (1485-1714) than the Kings and Queens, however interesting they may be. This course seeks to examine the social and cultural world behind the power of the Royals. Was the path to Protestantism relatively seamless among the populace? What was the relationship with Scotland and Ireland? How did the idea of empire emerge? With a powerful Queen in Elizabeth, did ideas about women in politics shift, or did ideas about proper gender roles persist?