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SOCIETY
Southern Catholic Europe
nobility and the clergy
maintained their positions of power and continued to reject the craft and trade industrie
other manual work they considered undignified
economy barely recovered.
to live off the rents they received from their lands
possessions and accumulate noble titles.
Society was divided in classes
petite bourgeoisie
artisans, small-scale traders and labourers
disadvantaged by having to pay taxes and badly affected by the crises.
peasants
majority of the population, whose situation was very precarious.
became very vulnerable during agricultural crises and many of them had to resort to begging.
haute bourgeoisie
English and Dutch bourgeoisie
eventually gained access to political positions.
important traders, bankers and high public officials.
beggars
increased in number.
lived in the cities and had to beg or depend on charity to survive.
nobility
not pay any taxes
had political or military obligations
time to hunting and social events
lived in palaces
income from their lands, which were worked by the peasants
Atlantic Protestant Europe
became more powerful
gained access to political positions and became part of the privileged class
position enabled them to develop trade
bourgeois traders prospered through the craft and trade industries
