HIS244H1 Lecture 7: Lecture 7-January 31.docx
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The glorious revolution and the making of great britain. Glorious revolution the replacement of one monarch-james 2-with a pair, william and mary. What did this mean for england and europe. England had rid itself of puritans in the government. England ridded its monarch because nothing was resolved by the civil war-no clear agreement on what. English society and polity should look like at the end of the civil war. The civil war increased an appetite for absolutism. Thomas hobbes-poster boy for this type of thinking-that only an absolute monarchy could save people from this short life. Hobbes-made a small mistake-forgot to account for what would happen if the absolute monarchy was a group of absolute leaders. People forgot about these concerns when charles 2 took the throne. He got married during the civil war in 1655 during the cromwell dictatorship=a 15 year old named. He recorded details of all his sexual encounters. He loved going to the theatre, drinking ale.
