Absolute Monarchy Triumphs in France * Long Reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) Cardinal Jules Mazarin- student of Cardinal Richelieu and the chief minister of Anne of Austria; stooped rebellions of peasants and city-dwellers to strengthen the authority of the monarchy. Anne of Austria- mother of Louis XIV‚ ruled for him because he was 5 years old then. Divine Right- the power of a king came from God and no subject will dare to question it. * It is God who establishes kings… Princes
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Elizabethan Witchcraft and Witches Elizabethan Superstitions The Elizabethan Period - Elizabethan Witchcraft and Witches The Elizabethan Period and the intellectual era of the Renaissance introduced English persecution of Elizabethan Witches and Witchcraft. Ironically‚ this period of great learning brought with it a renewed belief in the supernatural including a belief in the powers of witchcraft‚ witches and witch hunts! Ironically the introduction of the printing press‚ one of the greatest tools
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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protestant England. He would collect his army from the Netherlands and a huge fleet of 130 ships across the channel‚ with the help of France. Why did Phillip launch the Armada?- Phillip launched the Armada for many reasons. When Elizabeth became queen‚ Phillip asked her hand in marriage‚ but she refused. This angered him‚ as he hoped to keep power over England‚ and also keep it catholic. This was also an embarrassment as Spain was one of he most powerful countries in Europe. England was also helping
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is evident in sources 1‚ 2 and 3. In source 1‚ Polydore Vergil‚ a historian‚ talks about how the money-men ignored their responsibility of collecting tax from the people of England in order to essentially ‘stay on their good sides’. King James of Scots is mentioned by name‚ as being someone who could invade England while the king was away at battle; clearly showing that Scotland has the strength to invade an entire country on such short-term notice. As well as this‚ Scotland was and still is the
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to recusants‚ a name given to Catholics who turned down the power of attending services in Anglican Church. Moreover‚ in the midst of 1620s‚ a time when the marriage took place‚ there was enormous fear and distrust of the Roman Catholics. Reign of Queen Mary I had prioritized persecution of Protestants‚ there had been a history of what rose to be known as Thirty Years War‚ which aimed at wiping out Protestantism in across
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present day Scottish people‚ it is necessary to understand some of its storied past. Just how did this weird-looking instrument make its way deep into the hearts of the Scottish populace? One of the first references to bagpipes – or the ‘pipes’ as Scots affectionately refer to them – in the British Isles is unambiguously mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The
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came too quick and all his changes were quickly reversed by his half-sister‚ Mary. Mary also known as the Queen of Scots also only stayed on the throne for five years before she to died. She didn’t accomplish much but was devoted to marrying her cousin and to the papacy. After she died the next to succeed the throne was Queen Elizabeth also sometimes called the Virgin Queen. When she became queen she quickly reversed all the changed Mary had
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taking away the absolutism of royal power and was a declaration of the “rights and liberties of the subject". Scottish Riots (1637): Archbishop Laud decides to impose the English Prayer Book on Scotland‚ where most of the people was Presbyterian. The Scots erupted into open rebellion. The Kirk: Scottish Presbyterian Church. Charles’ attempt to arrest MPs (January 1642): Event that actually started the Civil War. Charles marched into the House of Commons and tried to arrest five leading MPs who had been
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1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation of repelling the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada. Queen Elizabeth supported pirates due to the serious economical crisis that England was facing to (at that time‚ England have been at war against France for several years; this war had entailed huge expenses to the coffers of England). Pirates supported royal finances back. The main problem of Queen Elizabeth was Mary I‚ Queen of Scots
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