covering what I describe in the title as 'Early Modern England'.

这段时期被我称之为"现代英国早期"
Well, that's a label

名字只是一个标签
that may or may not mean very much to you.

你们也许熟悉也许不熟悉
I could have called the course

也可以把本门课程叫做
'Tudor and Stuart England'

"都铎与斯图亚特王朝时期的英国"
and indeed that term is used in the subtitle.

副标题里也是这样写的
It is about

这门课程讲述的是
England in the reigns of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs

都铎与斯图亚特王朝统治时期的英国
running roughly from the 1480s to the 1710s.

时间跨度从1480年至1710年
But to call it that might suggest that the course is

这样说呢可能会让人以为
structured around the rulers

本课程主要聚焦在统治者上
and that like so much history the focus is very much on the top.

如同其它的历史课程一样