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CENTRALIZATION OF POWER
Europe: Humanism to Absolute Imperial Monarchs
“What else, then, is all history, if not the praise of
Rome?”- Petrarch
Humanism
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What does it mean to
be a good citizen?
How does Humanism
differ from
Scholasticism?
What is the
relationship between
Machiavelli and
Humanism?
Renaissance
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Pico della Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man, 1486
Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples, (d. 1529)
Francios Rabelais (1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel
Johannes Reuchlin (1522)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536) In Praise of Folly
Thomas More (d. 1535) Utopia
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
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What is the impact of
having church services
in the common
language?
 Catechism-
Everyone
well informed of what
it meant to be Christian
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Council of Trent,
1545-1563
 Direct
response to
Protestantism
Rise of the Modern State
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The New Monarchs
 France,
Louis XI (1461-
1483)
 England, Henry VII
(1485-1509)
 Spain, Ferdinand of
Aragon (d.1516) and
Isabella of Castile
(d.1504)
Witchcraft and Heresy
Revolutions in England (1625-1689)
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Petition to Right
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Rise of Oliver Cromwell
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What is the issue with the Anglican Book of Common Prayer?
New Model Army
Levellers
Diggers
Society of Friends
Fifth Monarchists
Was the Commonwealth a success?
Louis XIV, the Sun King
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1643-1715
Versailles
War of Spanish
Succession
1685- Revocation of
Edict of Nantes
Triumph of the English Gentry
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The Glorious
Revolution
John Locke
 Leviathan,
Thomas
Hobbes, 1651
 The
Social Contract