Janina Ramirez tells the
story of three books that defined this radical religious
revolution in England: Tyndale's New Testament,
Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer and Foxe's Book of
Martyrs.
How did
Catholicism fight back? Why was Calvin so important?
Key concepts:
Soft Power, Protestant Work Ethic, predestination, Elect and the
Reprobate, puritanical, propaganda, inquisition,
waterboarding, human rights
Key skill: Comprehension,
explanation and Top Trumps playing,
How were nation states formed, why did they go to war against each other and why was
this important?
Key concepts: Huguenots, religious toleration, tyrannicide
Key skill: The philosophy of
identity, understanding the 30 Years' War!
Lesson 4
- European Civil Wars and the Rise of the Nation State
On
the rise of nation states see this excellent short overview by
William R. Bowen or this diagrammatically supported account
from the
Flow of History.
Why did the Dutch (and the
British) become so rich in the 17th century? What are some of
the inherent problems of capitalism?
The new 2018 BBC Civilisations art history series
contains a number of beautiful episodes. This is one of the best
and really excellent on the world's first globalisation.
This is a rather beautiful introduction to art in
the
Dutch Golden Age.
What was the scientific revolution?
Key concepts: deductive and inductive reasoning,
Key skill:
Lesson 6 - Scientific Enlightenment and Enlightened Despotism.
Probably the most readable books on the
history of the scientific revolution are Dava Sobel's Longitude, the story
of John Harrison an English clockmaker who solved the problem of
how to measure longitude at sea and
Galileo's Daughter which brilliantly captures a
relationship and time: plague, Thirty Years' War and the Medicis.
Longitude was also made in to an outstanding
TV film.
