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2 days ago · Germany - 14th Century, 15th Century, Society: Despite the impressive advance of trade and industry in the later Middle Ages, German society was still sustained chiefly by agriculture. Of an estimated population of 12 million in 1500, only 1.5 million resided in cities and towns.
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2 days ago · Germany was a major area of Jesuit activity; the order settled in Cologne in 1544 and later in Vienna, Ingolstadt, and Prague. In close collaboration with Catholic rulers, often as their confessors, the Jesuits embodied the activist phase of Catholic reform that is known as the Catholic Reformation.
3 days ago · The traditional dating is as early as the 16th (or even 15th [16]) century, with scholars arguing that Europe had been on a trajectory of higher growth since that date. [17] Pomeranz and others of the California school argue that the period of most rapid divergence was during the 19th century.
4 days ago · The early Valois kings had negotiated with the Estates-General or with the provincial Estates for their extra money; but in the middle of the 15th century, when the Hundred Years’ War with England was reaching a successful conclusion, Charles VII was able to strike a bargain with the Estates. In return for a reduction in overall taxation, he ...
3 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55.
2 days ago · In the early 15th century, for example, John Ewloe owned land in Handbridge, Claverton, and Mollington, and John Whitmore in Caldy and Guilden Sutton; both men served several terms as mayor. Cestrians also owned fishgarths and fishtraps along the western shore of Wirral.
2 days ago · The average number of new freemen registered annually rose from 60 in the second, to 123 in the last quarter of the 14th century, fell to 100 in the first half of the 15th century and to 57 by the end of it.
