- Intense focus on all areas of life, religion, science, politics, domestic relations
- reflected in literature of the era - heightened focus on and analysis of the self and the personal life
- How to build a good marital relationship
- How to think about science, astronomy, and the natural condition (nature) of things
- What constitutes tyranny, servitude, and liberty
- What history teaches
- How to meet the daily challenges of love, work, education, change, temptation, and deceptive rhetoric
- How to reconcile free will and divine providence
- How to understand and respond to God's way
- Role of women:
- Virtues and activities pertaining to women of higher classes
- drawing attention to expectations of widow's chastity
- how to rear children: affection vs rigidness
- critical norms
- defining gender
- defining household roles
- writers inherited system of knowledge found on analogy, order, & hierarchy
- Monarch was like God, ruler of the universe, and like father head of the family
- The system beginning to crumble in face of scientific & empirical approach
1517 - Reformation; Luther's Thesis
1649 - 1660 - Puritans have control of monarchy
-- Puritan oath - Anglican Communion, no holiday
-- People wanted it
1660 - 1688 - Restoration - Reign of Charles II
Restoration: response to Puritan control
- reopens play houses
- cared about music, art
- has cavalier parliament
- Milton - very puritan, part of this had to stay with in King's graces
- Where political parties were created
- Tone party one of the first made
- split between puritans and restoration
- whigs came in 1673 under clarendon codes
- ~12 years only with Tories
- liberal, more rights for government, less for monarch
1665 - Plague
1666 - Great fire that helped end the plague
Act of Toleration rescinded - no Catholic or Jew could hold office - Affects Pope
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