HIS109Y1 Lecture : October Notes
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Urban townsmen wanted to use the instruments of city government to benefit their economic position thus they needed power. New perspective that went beyond the new group they needed a world view, an ideology to define what they are doing. This new class people who have made their own ways in life made life for themselves social nobility. They were layman didn t fit in any estate. They didn t have any place in european society. They were educated education was held very high. They were educated laymen who worked came into the medieval world like a bomb. If they were going to succeed they needed their own ideology. They looked at the world around them and didn t have anything in common with anyone. The italian cities developed a dynamic culture of urban and secular life. Italian cities didn t decline into small villages. Italy had the opportunity of wealth and an urban class that was able to flourish.
