HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Elizabethan Era
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P2 could open a hidden window in his bedroom that allowed him to watch the monks" church services and to pray with them. The two functions of the escorial: p2, being the most powerful ruler in europe, worked the hardest. B. 1. demanded reports from his chief advisers and then agonized over decisions in his small office in the escorial. B. 1. a. he could not bring himself to choose one policy over another. B. 1. b. at such times, the gov"t of spain ground nearly to a halt. P2 would not allow anyone to help him. In p2"s eyes, catholicism"s rivals were the muslim ottoman turks and the protestants. P2 achieved a stunning victory against the ottoman turks. His struggles against protestantism caused him only frustration: war against the ottomans. 1571- pope called on all catholic princes to take up arms against the ottoman empire.
