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Dr Smith's research interests lie mainly in British political, constitutional and religious history in the early modern period, especially during the seventeenth century. He has published textbooks on the history of Britain and Ireland from 1603 to 1707, and on the Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689. Much of his primary research has focused particularly on Royalism, and he has published a monograph on Constitutional Royalism and the search for settlement in the 1640s. However, Dr Smith is equally interested in the other 'side' during the revolutionary period, and has produced two books on Oliver Cromwell. He is ... involved in cross-disciplinary research spanning historical and literary studies, and has published collaborative work with two prominent literary scholars at the University of Chicago. Dr Smith is increasingly interested in biography, and was an associate editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as well as the contributor of 23 articles.
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During the early modern period in England funerals developed from being a demonstration of status quite independent of an individual’s economic position and become an item of consumption. Based on rarely used probate accounts this paper explores the funeral rituals of middle-ranking people in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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The word ‘profession’ as it was employed in the early modern period implies an ideology. The course explores this ideology, drawing on knowledge of religious and intellectual developments to illuminate the so-called professional ethic and the function of professionals and professions in society. The phenomenon raises many tantalizing and as yet unanswered questions about the nature of social relations and of work itself, in the transitional period between pre-industrial and industrial England. Answering these questions requires attention both to the preparation of professionals for their role and to the way in which they fulfilled that role. In this context the internal affairs of the individual learned professions assume considerable importance, but so ... do relationships between the professions and other members of society that they serve, and the relationship between the professions and wider historical change – such as that signified by the English Reformation or the Civil Wars. Also of great importance must be the attitude of the government of the day towards the professions and the role that it envisaged they should play and that it promoted.
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Healy's book derives from an analogy between the individual and the social body, common in the early modern period. She draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Mary Douglas, Sander Gilman, Stephen Greenblatt, and George Lakoff /Mark Johnson to argue that the physical and the social experience of disease are intimately related. Her argument is structured by her conviction that "when social systems are perceived to be in disarray, ideas about the physical body's conditions of unity are called into play in an attempt to address problems and to re-establish order."
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Dr Serjeantson's field of research is the intellectual history of early modern Britain and northern Europe from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. His research interests are principally in the history of knowledge and human understanding, in education and political thought, and in the history of relations between the natural and the moral and political sciences of the early modern period. He is ... editing volume III of the Oxford Francis Bacon for O.U.P.
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Hist 3100 examines the narrative of English history in the early modern period focusing on the age of the Tudors and the Stuarts. It examines specific intellectual, political, social, religious, and economic problems of the English (and Scottish and Irish) peoples during this period. It allows you to understand and to use the materials used by historians of early English history.
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