THE REING OF CATHOLIC MONARCHS

ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

ART AND CULTURE

crown of Castilla

crown on Aragón

14th century

new humanists ideas

spread through Europe

Medieval tradition in Hispanic kingdom

Spanish Renaissance

humanists

culture

art

found universities

Castilian language

Juan Luis Vives

Sculpture

Gothic was maintained

Painting

crisis

economic

demographic

based on cereals

conflicts

Transhumance livestock farming

Burgos Consulate

shepherds migrated with their flocks

wool exportation was very important

north in summer

south in winter

monarchs put taxes

privileges to the shepherds

cañadas reales

Honrado Concejo de la Mesta

1494

control exportation of wool

from cantabrian ports

to Flanders or England

Spanish textile industry

domestic demand

Agriculture

less land for crops

pastures for the livestock

Andalucía

vineyards

olive groves

wine

oil

16th century

main economic source

metals from the Americas

crisis of the 14th century

increase the feudal abuses

available resources decline

abuses

taxes

fins

arbitrary measures

peasants

War of the Remences

1489

Ferdinand stopped the abuses

Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe

trade in the Mediterranean

benefitted

incorporation of Italian territories

main ports

Valencia

Barcelona

Economic activities

shipbuilding

textile industry

the Monarchs

impose duties to foreign products

protect local industries

more importance

Antonio de Nebrija

1492

philologist

published the first grammar

Cardinal Cisneros

Alcalá de Henares University

spread of the printing press

polyglot bible

written in four languages

easier to identify errors in translation

very important humanist

converted Jew

escaped from the Inquisition

Flanders

England

follower of Erasmus of Rotterdam

proposed

creation of social services

educational reforms

Architecture

main gothic works

commissioned by the monarchs

Isabelline style

Cisneros style

Domenico Fancelli

important artist

sculpted the Tomb of the Catholic monarchs

Granada

Pedro Berruguete

influenced by the Flemish style

painting

sculptture

belline style

juan luis vives

cardinal cisneros

nebreija

shipbuilding

feudal abuses

ives

burgos consulado

cañada real