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The New Monarchies: 15 c – 16 c

The New Monarchies: 15 c – 16 c. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY. Characteristics of the New Monarchies. They offered the institution of monarchy as a guarantee of law and order.

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The New Monarchies: 15 c – 16 c

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  1. The New Monarchies:15c – 16c Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY

  2. Characteristics of the New Monarchies • They offered the institution of monarchy as a guarantee of law and order. • They proclaimed that hereditary monarchy was the legitimate form of public power  all should accept this without resistance. • They enlisted the support of the middle class in the towns  tired of the local power of feudal nobles. • They would have to get their monarchies sufficiently organized & their finances into reliable order.

  3. Characteristics of the New Monarchies • They would break down the mass of feudal, inherited, customary, or “common” law in which the rights of the feudal classes were entrenched. • The kings would MAKE law, enact it by his own authority, regardless of previous custom or historic liberties  What pleases the prince has the force of law!

  4. England stability under the Tudors France consolidation of power. Spain unification by marriage. HR Empire different model: the cost of decentralization.

  5. The Tudors of England

  6. Tudor England1485

  7. The Valois Dynasty in France

  8. France in the 15c – 16c

  9. The Habsburg Dynasty

  10. Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain The Madonna of the Monarchs

  11. Kingdoms of Spain: 1492

  12. Empire of Charles V

  13. The Empire of Philip II

  14. The Holy Roman Empire: Late 1512

  15. The Holy Roman Empire: Late 16c

  16. Central Europe in 1600

  17. The Growth of the Ottoman Empire

  18. The Battle of Lepanto, 1571

  19. Eastern Europe in 1550

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