HISP 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Life Is A Dream, Ninety-Five Theses, Counter-Reformation
10 Dec 2017
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Lecture 16: the mystics - the spanish golden age. Recap: golden age describes culture and economic status during these years, beginning with the period of discovery (columbus sailing), when spain"s status as a nation. Habsburg spain (1516-1700: philip i, the handsome". Summoned to spain as king because joanna of castile was seen as unfit to rule: charles i/ v (holy roman emperor) 1516-1556: co-monarch: joanna of castile, the mad (1504-1555, constantly attacked because his empire was so large; also by his own people because he taxed heavily (revolt of comuneros, villager, counter-reformation, philip iim the prudent". 1556-1598: height of spain"s influence and power, colonization of the philippines, defeat of the spanish armada (1588, continuation of counter-reformation, el escorial. Spain in bankruptcy: philip iii, the pious". Inherited debts from his father: expulsion of remaining moriscos (1609, thirty years" war (1618-1648) Famine, bubonic plague, decline: philip iv, planet king" (reference to the sun, 4th planet), the great".
