Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

CULTURAL STUDIES (GB)
Vorlesungen
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Restoration Culture, 3 CP
2 st. di 14-16 HGB 10
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 654)
The times between the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and the death of the last
Stuart ruler in 1714 saw many profound changes. Power gradually shifted from the
monarch to parliament; science and empiricism started to supersede religious belief;
money and wealth became more important than heredity. The development towards
what we nowadays would consider a "modern" state did not go smoothly, though.
There is a to and fro between old and new. Hence, the Restoration period is full of
crises, conflicts and paradoxes. Sometimes the people seem like our near
contemporaries and sometimes like quaint bewigged figures from a very distant time.
The lecture course aims at having a critical look at the familiar and to make the
quaint more accessible. By dealing with political and religious developments,
literature, music and fashion it intends to present the students with a multifaceted
survey of Restoration culture.
Requirement for credit points: regular attendance, written test at the end of the
semester.
Seminare
050 700 Pankratz
Catholicism in Britain, 5 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
Ever since the 16th century, England (and later Britain) has defined itself as
Protestant nation and has distinguished itself from a Catholic “other”, which stood for
tyranny and irrational idolatry. Nowadays, the conversion of Tony Blair to Catholicism
is associated with trendiness and New Age chic. The seminar will have a closer look