Saved Bookmarks
| 1. |
Name the various group in which European society was divided |
|
Answer» Please refer to the answer below. Explanation:Early modern society was hierarchical. According to the French lawyer Charles Loyseau (1564–1627), the division of people into different ranks was crucial to social stability: Because we cannot LIVE together in equality of condition, it is necessary that some command and others obey … SOVEREIGN lords command all within their state, addressing their COMMANDS to the great; the great [address their commands] to the middling, the middling to the small, and the small to the people … Thus by means of these multiple divisions and SUBDIVISIONS, the several orders make up a general order, and the several Estates a state well ruled. Although society remained hierarchical throughout the early modern period, the structure of that HIERARCHY changed over time. |
|