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Venice

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Overseas trade

Shipbuilding

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Renaissance

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Cultural achievements of 14-16 century

Rest on economic/political developments of earlier centuries

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Genoa

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Crossroads of trade between east and west

Shipbuilding

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Milan

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Crossroads of trade between east and west

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Florence

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Wool industry - major factor in financial expansion and population increase

First artistic/literary manifestations of IR appeared here

Papal banking - ex. Medici family

Enormous wealth

Economic foundations were strong
-Kind Edward III repudiated debts Black Death and labor unrest didn’t change the stability

-landlocked city

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Communes

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Northern Italian cities
-independence from nobles

Nobles settled in cities afterwards 
-trade
Urban real estate 
Public offices
Marriages
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Urban nobility

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Groups tied by 
-Blood
-Economic interests
-Social connections 
who fought for their rights
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Popoplo

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People excluded from power b/c of social restrictions

  • wanted places in govt
  • used armed forces/violence
  • wanted republican govt
  • failed to establish civil order
  • despots and oligarchies formed and ruled Italian city states
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Princely court

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Signori/oligarchy - facade of republican govt

Allowed oligarch to flaunt wealth

Renaissance - nostalgia for roman govt and shrewdness

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What hindered the development of one unified state

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Italians attachment to individual city states

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5 main powers

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Venice
Milan
Florence
Papal States
Kingdom of Naples

-governed as monarchs

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Venice - power

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International power

Oligarchy of merchant aristocrats

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Milan power

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Despots of Sforza family

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Florence power

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Authority in several state councils

Authority held by Medici banking family

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Papal States / Central Italy power

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Pope Alexander VI

  • son Cesare Borgia - reasserted papal authority in the papal lands
    - model for The Prince
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Naples power - southern Italy and sometimes Sicily

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Disputed between aragonese and French

-passed to Aragon

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Northern Europe v Italy

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NE - centralization/consolidation

I - power city states conquered the weak

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Renaissance Italians invented machinery of modern

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Diplomacy

Resident ambassador - permanent embassies in capitals
- monitoring of relations and commercial ties

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What set Italy up for invasion

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Venice Florence Milan and papacy had great achievement but inability to form a common alliance

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Savonarola

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Denounced paganism
Moral vice of Florence
Medici govt
And pope Alexander VI corruption

  • religious leader of Florence
  • contributed to fall of Medici dynasty
  • symbolized internal instability
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Why did French King Charles VIII invade itality in 1494?

  • Florence Rome Naples
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Italy

  • focus of intl ambitions
  • battleground of foreign armies
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League of Cambrai

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Louis XII + pope + German emperor

-purpose of stripping rich Venice of its mainland possessions

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Habsburg-Valois War

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French v German in Italy

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Petrarch

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Father of IR

-Germanic invasions caused a cultural outbreak and started the Dark ages

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Individualism

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  • secular
  • quest for glory
  • full development of one’s ability

Ex. Alberti and Cellini

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Humanism

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  • skeptical of authority
  • looked to classics (Greek/roman) to understand human nature
  • literary culture considered to be educated and civilized
    • increasing lay phenomenon
  • human potentional
  • rhetoricians
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Difference bw renaissance humanists and medieval ones

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RH - more self conscious about what they were doing and stressed realization of human potential

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Secularism

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  • material world > spiritual one
  • attention concentrated in acquiring material things
  • usury - lending money at interest
  • worried about profits for comfortable life than values
  • increased in society
  • most still remained Christian
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Humanist Valla

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Proved On False Donation of Constantine a forgery

-weakened papal authority

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Boccaccio - Decameron

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Portrays acquisitive and worldly society

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Why did church leaders not combat the secular spirit?

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They were already rich and fostered the worldly attitude rather than opposing it

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What two cities lead the way in arts?

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Florence and Rome (HighR)

R
-DA Vinci
Michealango
-Raphael

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Early R Italy art

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Manifested corporate power

-powerful urban groups (guilds/religious fraternities) commissioned

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Middle Ages Art subject

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Overwhelming religious

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Later 15 century subject

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Individuals/ oligarchs glorifying themselves and family - wealth

-became more secular

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Art reveals changing patterns of —– in R Italy

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Consumption (consumer habits)

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Giotto

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Realism painter

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Masaccio

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Father of modern painting

- narrative power

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Intl style

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Rich color
Description
Detail 
Forms
Curvilinear Rhythms
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Donatello

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Greatest influence of florentine artist

-variety of human nature

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Artists in R

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Status improved

  • worked under princes not public
  • economic security + great wealth
  • respected/rewarded
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R culture

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Technological innovation - printing
Shift in women status
Number of slaves

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Castiglione - courtier

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Courtly ideal of gentlemen

Became model for European gentlemen

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R humanism allowed for a —- advance for women

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Education

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Ceres

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Said women’s inferiority was characterized by themselves
Jewelry symbolized captivity
Condemned empty women

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The prince

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Subject : political power
Humans - out to advance themselves
Prince - use manipulation when necessary

  • political action cannot be restricted by moral considerations
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Medieval political theory

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1 state rose as consequence of Adams fall and people’s propensity to sin

2 high moral / Christian standards for rulers

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Significance of Machiavelli

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1 permanent social order reflecting gods will cannot be established

2 politics has it’s own laws and ought to be a science

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Paper

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Gutenberg Fust Schöffer

China - Arabs - Western Europe

Govts - declarations of war treaties battle accounts

Propaganda - differences on society (ex classes)
-basis for formation of political parties

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Print

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1st religious
Then morals medicine practical travel and porn

-bridged gap between written and oral cultures

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Time

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Europeans - mechanical clock
Arabs - sundials
Monastic/rural world - bells

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Quantification - precise measurements of days hours

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Buying and selling - initiated the process

  • mechanical clocks
  • invoked a visual/quantitative view
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Women’s work

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Venetian arsenal - sails
Florentine - textiles
Lyon - ferry device
Dubrovnik - female slaves

-helped agriculturally throughout Europe

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Status of upper class women —–

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Declined

Humanist Alberti and Vives + Smith - women’s role should be the household

Noblewomen - managed household & court
-servants, children, and condition of the serfs o

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Women sexuality

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Double standard
Rape not taken seriously
- seen as property + mild punishment

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Florentine govt - office of the night

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Went after men engaging in sodomy

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Slaves used as…

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Commodities and cheap labor

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Slaves were unfree persons of

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Slavic background

  • Prague bohemian polish
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——-replaced domestic servants in Portugal and Venice

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Blacks

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What roles did blacks play in R society

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Few managed freedom - went back to Africa

  • wide dispersion of blacks and benign pattern of Albert
  • lack of black slave revolts
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Slave trade was used by Africa leaders in order to get more

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Revenue and goods

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Genoa Venice (slaves)

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14 C Mediterranean slave trade

- Black Death labor shortage

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Black servants (women) were symbols of

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Wealth

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North Europe Humanists based on

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Christian beliefs

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Christian humanists believed

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Elements of classical and Christian cultures should be combined

Stressed use of reason

Impatient with scholastic philosophy - thought human nature could be improved by education

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More - Utopia

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1 absolute social equality
2 basic problems in society caused by greed
3 live by reason
4 institutions are perfect

  • acquisitiveness and private property promoted all sorta of vices and civil disorders
  • key to improvement/ reform of individual = reform of social institutions
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Dutch humanist Erasmus + themes

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Scholar with intl reputation
-publication include Greek New Testament

Themes
1 education is means to reform
2 philosophy of Christ

Christ is what he said/did, not what theologians have written

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French human Rabelais

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  • secular
  • comic
  • satire
  • gargantua and pantagruel
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Similarities E R M

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E R satirized hypocritical/pompous

M R in institution was education was key to moral and healthy life

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—— characterized Northern art and architecture

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Religion

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Van der Weyden & van Eycj

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Flemish artist equals of Italian painters

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Rulers utilized —– to rebuild their govt

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Aggressive methods implied by R political ideas

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Louis XI
Henry VII
Ferdinad/Isabella in Psian

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Monarchs w/

Royal authority
National purpose
MEmphasized royal majesty and royal sovereignty
Suppressed opposition and rebellion

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R rulers tended to rely on —-

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Middle class civil servants

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Charles VII France

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Reconciled the Burgundians and armagnacs

Recognized royal council
(Increased power to middle class men)

Put taxes on (gabelle) salt and land

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Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges

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General council superior to papacy

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Louis XI - Charles son France

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Money based
Promoted industries
Improved army

Stopped aristocratic brigandage and cut into urban independence

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Two developments that strengthened French monarchy

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1 marriage of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany
-added western duchy of Brittany

2 Concordat of Bologna

  • revoked Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
  • pope - 1st years income on new bishops and abbots
  • French rulers - right to select French bishops and abbots
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Henry VI England

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Authority of monarch sunk

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Yorkist Edward IV

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Established domestic tranquility

Conducted foreign pilot on basis of diplomacy

  • did not depend on parliament for money
  • cut down aristocratic influence
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Royal council

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Middle class
Governed at national level
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Court of star chamber

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  • Where royal council discussed serious threats with treacherous punishment a
  • led to decline of aristocrats behaving
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Justices of the peace

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Held order in local govt

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Tudors

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Relied on justices of peace
-got support of upper middle class through political interest directed at them
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Spain govt

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Loose confederation of kingdoms of Castile and Aragon

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Spain royal council

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-To curb aristocratic power

Middle class

Supervision of local authorities

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Revenues from ecclesiastical states for Spain allowed them to

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Raise an army
Continue Reconquista
Conquering of Granada and Navarre

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Jews

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Supported royal power

Sought refuge in Spain after being expelled from France and England

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Inquisition purpose

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Discover/punish converted Jews/Conversos
(later Muslims, Protestants)
Who were insincere

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Anti semitism in Spain

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40% of Jews killed/forced to convert

90
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Giorgio Vasari

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Italian art historian
Wrote about rebirth of art in 15/16 century
First introduced term renaissance