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The Age of Stuarts
Lesson Three
A Clil module
Pier Luigi Errani
Liceo Classico D. Alighieri 2011-2012
Causes of the civil war
• Religious (Catholics, Puritans, Protestants, Presbyterians…)
• Economic (Church, Nobility, Gentry, class of Yeomen,
Merchants, Poor…)
• Political (King, Parliament, Freedom, Rights, Law…)
• Nationalistic (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland…)
• Private (men and women, the eternal question of Adam and
Eve…)
• but what is the order???
Topic of the day
The movie
To Kill a king
with Tim Roth (Oliver Cromwell)
Dougray Scott (Thomas Fairfax)
Rupert Everett (Charles I)
Olivia Williams (Lady Fairfax)
English Civil War
• A video from Horrible Histories:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b0G_a
uKCI&list=PL465A0E4A17DBD12C&index=46&
feature=plpp_video
• You will find the tapescript in your folder in a
file named “english civil war song”. Keep it in
your screen while you listen to music
Religious causes
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Cromwell was Puritan
Charles I was Catholic
The Scotts were Presbyterians
we will see the Cromwell’s family and their
austere house and the Fairfax’s rich manor
Economic causes
• the interests of the classes were very different
• we will see the contrast between Cromwell, a
gentleman, Lord Fairfax and the King, who
belong to the nobility, Mr. Holles, a
merchant…
Politic causes
• James I believed in a new theory called the
Divine Right of Kings, which held that kings
could do what they liked and were answerable
only to God. He even said that ‘Kings are justly
called gods’, which was news to the English
• There were no rights for many people
• England didn’t have a Constitution, only Magna
Charta and some medieval rights
• You will see people struggling in name of
freedom
Nationalistic causes
• During the English civil war (or the British civil
war) everyone struggled against everyone
• Scotland and Ireland were sometimes with the
King sometimes against him
Men and women
• Therefore, a revolution is made by men.
• And by women
• Sometimes passion is an x-factor very
important in history
• you will see how much lady Fairfax was
appreciated by everyone
Thomas Fairfax, (1612 –1671) commander-in-chief of the New Model Army. Winner in the
battle of Naseby 1645
Thomas Fairfax, (1612 –1671) commander-in-chief of the New Model Army. Winner in the batt
Sir Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658 - The Leader
Mr. Holles, Speaker of Parliament, merchant
Lady Fairfax, daughter of a Lord
His Majesty King Charles I (1600 – 30 January 1649)
The English civil war
Read ROBERT BUCHOLZ, A History of England
from the Tudors to the Stuarts,2003, part III, p.
Lecture Thirty-Two - The Civil Wars: 1642–1649
English civil war factions
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12Vwv
MvC0&list=PL465A0E4A17DBD12C&index=33
&feature=plpp_video
• text at:
• http://historyplanet.wordpress.com/2010/01/
31/english-civil-war-which-faction-would-youjoin/
Quizzes
• from historyplanet:
• http://www.royalquiz.com/quiz/toltec/world_
turned_upside_down