Sumários

The first Stuarts

4 Outubro 2021, 15:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The rise of a new dynasty with the de facto  union of Scotland and England.

 The first obstacles: the religious protestant divisions and the Gunpowder Plot.
James's I efforts to develop a balanced external policy between Catholic and Protestant countries.
Charles i rule and the influence o the Frecnh absolutist model. The premisses of that poliical iceology.


the Reformation

29 Setembro 2021, 15:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

the reformation in England.

The rise of protestant movements in Europe.
The importance of Luther's criticism and his 95 theses.
John Calvin's doctrine and its impact on the emergent social and economic way of living.
The schism with Rome and its consequences on English external policy.


More's Utopua

27 Setembro 2021, 15:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras


Thomas More and his role in Henry VIII's court.
Thomas Utopia - the definition of a new genre, its main characteristics and goals.
Analysis of Book II of Utopia:
a) social structure;
b) political system;
c) rural economy; no private property;
d) religious ecumenism;
e) education;
 f) colective life.

Synthesis of the way of living depicted in the work.




The firsr Tudors

22 Setembro 2021, 15:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The first Tudors and the centralisation of power.Henry VIII politics: the internal situation in economic terms. The commercial expansion, especially the wool trade and its impact on rural life with the enclosures development.  The dynastic situation: the need of a male heir and its consequences on the kingdom's relationship with Spain. 

Thomas More's  Utopia, Book I as the depiction of the realm and its social and economic problems.


The Renaissance

20 Setembro 2021, 15:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Exploration of the concept of Renaissane, and specifically of English Renaissance.


C.S. Lewis, "New Learning, New Ignorance": major factors in the definiyion of Renaissance.
Classical  culture - its major contributions to the changing of then-current mentalilities.