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Crisis and Absolutism 1550-1715
Crisis and Absolutism 1550-1715
PROTESTANTISM IN ENGLAND
7% of population
40-50% of nobility Huguenots northern and norhtwestern France
armies
Other issue, nobles vs central power of French monarch
30 years of War
Henry of Navarre Huguenot political leader inherited the
throne of France 1594, but decided to convert to Catholicism to
gain acceptance.
Issued the Edict of Nantes 1598 Recognized
Catholicism as te official religion of France but gave the
Huguenots the right to worship and to enjoy all political
privileges and hold public offices.
PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
ENGLISH REVOLUTION
Cavalier or royalists
Roundheads parliamentary forces victory due to Oliver Cromwell New Model Army
extreme Puritans known as the Independents.
Cromwell purged Parliament of dissenters.
Rump Parliament had Charles I executed Janualy 30, 1649
Parliament abolished monarchy and became a Commonwealth, type of republic
Rum Parliament difficult to work with and dispersed it
Cromwell set up military dictatorship 1649 - 1658
ENGLISH RESTORATION
A GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
Louis bribed important people so his policies would be carried out at the
local level.
New territories
Nations had to form coalitions to prevent him from
dominating Europe.
Died in 1715
EMERGENCE OF PRUSSIA
ST. PETERSBURG
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
MANNERISM
Italy 1520-1530
Reformation revival of
religious values brought
anxiety
Broke down High
Renaissance principles
of balance, harmony
and moderation
El Greco elongated
and contorted figures
BAROQUE
AFTER RENAISSANCE .
MANNERISM
El Greco
Saint Peters
Basilica
Baldachin and
Throne of St. Peter
William Shakespeare
Elizabethan era
1580-1640
The Globe Theatre
Shakespeare complete
man of theater
Theater for all social
classes
Intense drama
Insight of human
psychology
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quijote de la
Mancha
Ideal
realism
Lope de Vega
Playwright 1,500
plays
500 survive today
Witty, action packed
and realistic
Leviathan 1651
Humans guided not by
reason or moral ideals but
from ruthless struggle for
self-preservation
Social contract state
Absolute power needed to
preserve order in society
John Locke