World History II

Unit 4: Interactions Across the Globe

Chapter 17: The Renaisance, New Sciences, and Religious Wars in Europe

7: Wed, Sep 25, 2024

Please post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:

The text points out that most national governments in Europe were pursuing policies of increased centralization and bureaucratic control, along with increased identification of people with the new national cultures, driven to some extent by increased literacy, communication, and participation in governments, at least in France, Germany, England, and the lowland countries.

Think about the following groups that created communities within nations in Europe, and submit your notes in preparation for our discussion. How did each of these communities support or transcend the “national identification” of the increasingly centralized states?

• Scientific and literary societies
• Coffee houses and salons
• Monastic and fraternal orders
• Church institutions (consider both Catholic and Protestant affiliations, and identification with political states).

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