1. The New
Monarchies in the
Early Modern
Period

2. Niccolò Machiavelli

3. Characteristics of the New
Monarchies1. They offered the institution of monarchy as a
guarantee of law and order.
2. They proclaimed that hereditary monarchy was the
legitimate form of public power , and that all should
accept this without resistance.
3. They enlisted the support of the middle class in the
towns, who had tired of the local power of feudal
nobles.
4. Their monarchies would require a new level of
organization and would require additional revenue.
Taxation was instituted to provide consistent funds.

4. Characteristics of the New
Monarchies
5. Their goal was to break down the mass of feudal,
inherited, customary, or common law in which the
rights of the feudal classes were entrenched.
Royal courts would apply the law in more
uniform ways.
6. The kings would MAKE law, enact it by his own
authority, regardless of previous custom or
historic liberties.

5. Characteristics of the New
Monarchies
5. Early states lacked the power to enforce their
will. To remedy this, monarchs began to employ
bureaucracy--agencies, committees, representative
bodies, and councils to assist in implementing royal
authority.
6. Medieval wars were private affairs, and thus were
destructive and difficult to control. The New
Monarchs worked to make war the sole preserve
of the state—employing a standing army.
7. What pleases the prince has the force of law.

6. England  stability under the Tudors
France  consolidation of power.
Spain  unification by marriage.
The Empire  decentralization and
decline.

7. The Tudors of England

8. Henry VII Tudor

9. Tudor
Englan
d
1485

10. The Valois
Dynasty in
France

11. France in
the 15th –
16th
Centuries

12. Charles
VII
Valois

13. Louis XI
Valois
The Spider

14. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
The Madonna of the Monarchs

15. Kingdoms of Spain: 1492

16. Kingdoms of Spain: 1492
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of
Castile

17. The Habsburg Dynasty

18. The Golden Bull
of 1356
The Imperial Electors
Duke of Saxony
Margrave of Brandenburg
King of Bavaria
Count Palatine of the Rhine
Archbishop of Mainz,
Archbishop of Trier
Archbishop of Cologne.

19. The
Golden
Bull of
1356

20. Emperor Maximilian I
Habsburg

21. Empire of Charles V Hapsburg