The Tudors: Treachery, Politics and Faith in the Age of the Renaissance
UndergraduateMUR-HIS2152025
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- 20 July 2025
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- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 July 2025
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The Tudors: Treachery, Politics and Faith in the Age of the Renaissance
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate how political, social and religious conflict shaped the experiences of the Reformation and Renaissance under the Tudors.
- Critically analyse historical evidence and scholarship, demonstrating an awareness of different conceptual approaches and how interpretations of the past might differ.
- Complete a major research project in which you examine well-chosen primary and secondary sources.
- Construct an evidence-based argument in written, visual, oral, audio and/or digital form, demonstrating articulate communication skills and applying conventions of the discipline.
- Topic 1: Tudor-mania: The Dawn of a Dynasty
- Topic 2: A Rose Amongst Thorns: The War of the Roses
- Topic 3: A Game of Thrones: Poverty, People and Patriarchy
- Topic 4: In Sickness and in Health: Medicine, Cosmology and the Tudor Mentality
- Topic 5: A Renaissance Prince: Henry VIII, Humanism and European Encounter
- Topic 6: For the Sake of a Son: The English Reformation
- Topic 7: To Rule and Misrule: A Tudor Crisis?
- Topic 8: Gloriana: Villains, Virgins and Elizabeth I Topic 9: Cloak-and-Dagger Scheming, Plotting and Political Manoeuvring
- Topic 10: To Lands Unknown: Exploration and Colonial Endeavours
- Topic 11: All the World’s a Stage: Theatre, Literature, and the Arts
- Topic 12: 118 Years: The Legacy and Longevity of the Tudors
England under the Tudors was a period of treachery, political intrigue and religious conflict—the effect of which transformed the face of Europe and rebounded through history. Under the reigns of Henry VIII and his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I, the Reformation sundered the religious and political unity of Europe, the feudal king was supplanted by a 'divine' monarch, and England rose as a world power. England’s security in the same period was shaped by complex international relations, including notable contests with Scotland, France and Spain, the long reach of the Holy Roman Emperor, and the enduring strategic and religious influence of the Pope. Though literature and the arts flourished at home in the Tudor age, giving rise to the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne and Holbein, it was also a period of intense social conflict in which ‘witches’ were hanged and religious dissidents were burned at the stake. In this subject students explore the allies, enemies and impacts of the Tudor monarchs to understand the extraordinary experiences of the English Renaissance.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
- Portfolio/workbook (30%)
- Research paper (40%)
- Invigilated Exam (30%)
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