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a period of major transition
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in society and economy.
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Lectures fourteen through seventeen will look at various
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aspects of social and cultural change in the same period,
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the late Elizabethan, early Stuart period.
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I'll look at the witch craze of that time.
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I'll look at crime and disorder, at popular protest and
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rebellion and at literacy and education.
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Then lectures eighteen to nineteen,
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we'll come to the religious and political tensions
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of the early seventeenth century
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which eventually exploded