HIST 1003 Lecture : Lecture 1
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Background: the church"s authority was questioned-12things in the text including, clergy as demanding landlords, criticism of clergical life styles (esp. Humanists, heretics: (authority: willing obedience to a person or instruction recognized as having the right to rule, the elites were concerned about the behavior of the urban poor. Martin luther: biography of a radical, 1. vow to st. anne (contractualism, 2. eliminate sin"s penalties ( behavioral system, 3. An answer: the justified live by faith: 5. The dominicans push him to truly radical positions: his ides, 1. God alone saves; man can only believe: 2. Community: the magistrate"s reformation in city-states (swiss such as. Discovery transforms the world ( the eurocentric world system) General background changes: metanarrative: secularization, modernization, demographic changes to ca 1620, 50% growth over 150 years, important because , monetarization of the economy, more bullion for coin the money economy is fundamentally gold and silver.
