History 2403E Lecture 1: Week 1 Introduction September 10 2012.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2403E
• Professor: Jeffrey Temple

Document Summary

Human factors (who is writing it?: time can change the view of history. 1500 everyone was catholic, protestants did not exist yet: catholic church 1500, your life has been set out by god. You were born to be a farmer, king, etc. You must be submissive to higher authority: women-men-nobles-kings, many people are not literate, not much communication from town to town. Henry vii: spain isabella of castile, ferdinand of aragon, holy roman empire maximilian i of hapsburg, italy fragmented states. Papal states ruled by pope: ottoman empire in constantinople [1453] sultan bayezid ii, north poland, sweden, russia [orthodox] Ivan iii grand prince of moscow russia converted from orthodox greek. Church in constantinople poland and sweden were catholic: concepts of time, 2012 time dominant, distance trivial, 1500 time unimportant, distance limiting. Watches did not exist in 1500: philip melanchon"s watch, 1530.