HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Secular Education, Classical Antiquity, Coluccio Salutati
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fundamental shifts where the mind of europe is moving to other places. rise of towns, money, development of urban bourgeoisie how this class became increasingly influential, found itself with enormous influence ability to make deals with centralized powers to work against the feudal nobility. urban townsmen wanted to use instruments of city government to benefit their social and economic condition. many were cooperatively structured; guilds that worked in the same crafts; able to use these to turn the city to their advantage. growing new perspective that was ideological ideology required to define what they were doing, replacement of value structure. values that pertain to living an urban, secular life. was the product of social mobility in a world that defined itself as static. these were people who worked and made their own wealth, rose from obscurity (ancestors were once peasants/serfs)
