HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anabaptism, Monastery, Schmalkaldic League

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1120
• Professor: Hernan Tesler- Mabe

Document Summary

Latin is the most spoken language of the catholic church: people did(cid:374)"t speak lati(cid:374) i(cid:374) the st(cid:396)eets, most people spoke in regional languages, most stuff was written in latin, unstable language landscape. Easte(cid:396)(cid:374) eu(cid:396)ope did(cid:374)"t pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipate i(cid:374) the lati(cid:374) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e: they spoke is slavonic language. The demographic: changes drastically due to the black death, reduced by 35, caused by traders bringing back rats from overseas, no access to medicine so there was lots of death. In 1350 after it drops to 50,000,000: after there are 10,000,000 goes up after the plague, less competition for labor, the most populous region is the kingdom of france 16 mil. The (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept of a (cid:862)(cid:271)ig (cid:272)it(cid:455)(cid:863) does(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ist. Italy and hanseatic league (group of cities in the roman empire who trade amongst themselves) have a fuckton of trading going on: serfdom feudal structure falls apart. Less workers (death: serfs have bargaining powers, space created for economic growth.