HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contemporary Authors, Petrarch, Black Death
19 Jan 2018
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Boccaccio (1312-1375), he mentioned decameron, 100 difference stories: people during this time were more curious than affair, the renaissance was based in italy and it was urban. Italy at this time: it was known as the holy roman empire, difference regions that was loosely held together by an empire. Urban: two urbanized regions at this time: belgium and netherlands, and. The holy roman state: 10% of europe"s population lived in cities, norm is to live in the country side, subsistence economy- you don"t have a surplus you just produce enough to live. Big five: rome, republic of venuce, the duchy of milan, kingdom of naples, republic of florence. Asia and hopefully receive spices in return: banking in cities and bookkeeping, birth of the stock market. Venice: republic- they tried to disperse power among many people (oligarchy- rule of few wealthy families, seaborne empire- had a great route and had trading posts all over.
