Personal Authority of the Monarch, 1492 - 1500
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- Created on: 28-03-16 12:30
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- Personal Authority of the Monarch
- F + I travelled extensively
- royal progress
- demonstrated their authority to their subjects
- Negative
- didn't visit all the realm
- royal progress
- Increased crown's authority
- Historians agreed that significant progress was made
- Proves New Monarchy
- "absolute rules"
- Absolutism = no restraints on personal authority
- Kamen disagrees
- Absolutism = no restraints on personal authority
- Strong centralised government in Castile = "absolute power" = Isabella
- Government in Aragon different
- 3 Cortes
- Aragon
- Valencia
- Catalonia
- 3 Cortes
- Despite marriage F + I ruled out their own territories
- never called themselves monarchs of Spain
- Enforcing order was a slow process complicated by politics, finance + religion
- Although Spain had changed
- not united or stable
- F + I travelled extensively
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