1. The New Monarchies: 15c – 16c

2. Characteristics of the New Monarchies
They offered law and order.
They proclaimed that hereditary monarchy was the legitimate form of public power  all should accept this without resistance.
They enlisted the support of the middle class in the towns  tired of the local power of feudal nobles.
They organized governments & their finances.
The kings would MAKE and ENACTS laws  What pleases the prince has the force of law!

3. England  stability under the Tudors
France  consolidation of power.
Spain  unification by marriage.
HR Empire  different model: the cost of decentralization.

4. The Tudors of England

5. Tudor England 1485

6. The Valois Dynasty in France

7. France in the 15c – 16c

8. The Habsburg Dynasty

9. Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain
The Madonna of the Monarchs

10. Kingdoms of Spain: 1492

11. The Empire of Philip II

12. Empire of Charles V

13. The Holy Roman Empire: Late 1512

14. The Holy Roman Empire: Late 16c

15. Central Europe in 1600

16. The Growth of the Ottoman Empire

17. The Battle of Lepanto, 1571