The Age of StuartsLesson Four

A Clil module

Pier Luigi ErraniLiceo Classico D. Alighieri 2011-2012

Causes of the civil war

• Religious (Catholics, Puritans, Protestants, Presbyterians…) • Economic (Church, Nobility, Gentry, class of Yeomen,

Merchants, Poor…)• Political (King, Parliament, Freedom, Rights, Law…)• Nationalistic (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland…)• Private (men and women, the eternal question of Adam and

Eve…)

• but what is the order???

Topic of the day

• The king’s Trial• From the movie: To kill a king• from 58:48 to 1:12:18

Economic causes

• You saw last time the contrasts between Mr. Holles and Cromwell.

• It represented the contrast between different classes, nobility, merchants, gentry

Economic causes

• the interests of the classes were very different• we saw in the movie the contrast between

Cromwell, gentleman, Lord Fairfax and the King, nobility, Mr. Holles, a merchant…

Nationalistic causes

• During English civil war (or British civil war) everyone has been struggling against everyone

• Scotland and Ireland sometimes were with the King sometimes against him

Politic causes• James believed in a new theory called the Divine

Right of Kings, which held that kings could do what they liked and were answerable only to God. He even said that ‘Kings are justly called gods’, which was news to the English

• There were no rights for many people• England didn’t have a Constitution, only Magna

Charta and some medieval rights• You see in the movie people struggling in name of

freedom

Putney debates

• Royalists: the right of the king is divine• Levellers: all of us are equal• Diggers: everything should be common

• Cromwell was supported by levellers

Which faction would you join

• video:• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12Vwv

MvC0&list=PL465A0E4A17DBD12C&index=33

• text (at the bottom of the page) here:• http://historyplanet.wordpress.com/

category/english-rebels/

Dates

• James I 1603-1629 : unification of kingdoms of Scotland and England, King James Bible, Gunpowder Plot, Petition of Rights

• Charles I 1629-1649: ship money, Short and Long Parliament, Hobbes: Leviathan, Civil war, Trial and execution

• Oliver Cromwell 1653- 1658: Lord Protector, Commonwealth• Richard Cromwell 1658- 1659: Lord Protector• Charles II 1659 – 1685: the Restoration, Great Fire, Great

Plague, Wren: St. Paul’s Cathedral• James II 1685 – 1689: the Glorious Revolution• William III Orange 1689 – 1702: Bill of Rights

The timeline

• Go to the British History Timeline• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/

timelines/british/index_embed.shtml

The documents

• Petition of Rights 1628: a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/3/1

• Habeas corpus Act 1640: the new Magna Charta, against the illegal detention of a man

• Bill of Rights 1689: the foundation of Parliamentary Monarchy: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp

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Exercises

From English Teaching Resources Timesaver British History Highlights:English Civil War pp. 50-51 (very easy)

Play

• Hoop Shoot with Oliver Cromwell• http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/

hoopshoot/hoop_cromwell.html