EN 3191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moll Davis, Aphra Behn, Middle Ages
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Recap: england reformation: going back and forth from catholicism to protestantism until finally elizabeth i who reigned from 1558-1603. It was a very long time to be in power and she converted england to protestantism. She is known as the virgin queen: the throne pasted to her nephew: mary stuart"s queen of scots son james who was already the king of scotland also inherited the english throne. England and scotland as such but they were provisionally unified under his rule. 1649: charles i executed: he was not a good monarch and ran into various problems and had confrontations with the monarch, england also had a revolution during which their king was beheaded. 1649-1660: interregnum: the period between kings; commonwealth of england (republic); Oliver cromwell: during the interregnum, the puritans took power, the reformation was the movement from catholicism to protestantism. Protestantism immediately hatched a number of various branches. The most important for england was the puritans.
