During the Renaissance monarchs centralized their power through marriage war and cultural policies Questions about HW Power in the Renaissance Monarchs and Machiavelli A MISCONCEPTION ID: 687010
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Monarchs and the Tools of Power
TAKE OUT HW NOTES #4 (TABLE NOTES WITH BULLET POINTS AS NEEDED)
During
the Renaissance, monarchs centralized their power through marriage, war and cultural policies.
Which states were centralizing? Examples?
What is “civic humanism”
Why is Machiavelli important?
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Power in the Renaissance – Monarchs and Machiavelli
A MISCONCEPTION:
With all this humanist “human beings are great” stuff, a person could easily fall under the misconception that the Renaissance was a peaceful time, where people hung out, painted, read books and lived peacefully, occasionally frolicking in fields in Ancient Greek style clothes. While this might have been the
ideal of many artists and poets, DURING THE RENAISSANCE MONARCHS WERE GROWING MORE POWERFUL, AND THEIR METHODS WERE ANYTHING BUT PEACEFUL. Monarchs and philosophers even adopted some ideals of humanism to justify their tools of power.
NOT REALLY ACCURATESlide3
Niccolo
Machiavelli’s
The Prince
: A handbook on how to maintain powerIn the Renaissance we see the rise of monarchs for the first time in Europe – where instead of small kingdoms, monarchs start to rule larger states.100 Years War was a good example of this beginningMACHIAVELLI: Ideal rulers are strong to prevent chaos in their states