Course Prerequisites

To be able to grasp the course and move further in their understanding of the different lectures and their corresponding tutorials (readings and class discussion), the students should be equipped with some basic knowledge on the evolution of English society and its main constituting transformations from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century (knowledge acquired in L.2). In that sense, students who hope to successfully grasp lectures and  develop intellectual and linguistic skills in the course, should have acquired basic knowledge on

-  Feudalism and the feudal system in medieval England         https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-westerncivilization/chapter/feudalism/

-  the English Religious Reformation      

-  the Elizabethan Age

-  the English Civil War and the enduring conflict between the Stuarts and Parliament