Estados modernos
Summary
In the class, we are discussing the emergence of modern states that form in Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries, which are a major characteristic of this modern age that emerges precisely at that time. When we were talking about humanism and the Renaissance, and the consequences of the Black Death, we mentioned that the 15th century is a century of many changes and many important events that allow us to mention this century as the beginning of the Modern Age. We had mentioned that due to the Black Death and the crisis of the 14th century, while the feudal lords were going through a crisis that we called a heraldic crisis, there was a strong spiritual crisis that accompanied the world with certain religious problems, the monarchies, the kings of all Europe benefited strongly from the crisis of the 14th century because they were the ones who somehow or other solved the conflict, generating certain investments and certain improvements in all European spaces. For example, the construction of certain sewer systems and certain public health systems that did not exist until that time in Europe. However, talking about modern states leads us to consult ourselves about why we say that in the 15th and 16th centuries, these modern states appear, and first we would have to ask ourselves what is a state. because the word State is a word that we use a lot, or that we have heard about, but that sometimes it is difficult to define, and we have to define it in this case to be able to distinguish these modern states that appear in the Modern Age from everything that existed before or in other parts of the world. The traditional State is usually defined with a very simple phrase, which is the one that says: The State is a legally organized nation. This definition of the State, in the first place, leaves more questions than answers, because we have to ask ourselves what is a nation, what it means that it is legally organized. And in the second place, it is not entirely correct, because it is not entirely precise. We talk about a nation when we refer to a community with a common history, tradition and culture, and that identifies itself as part of a single community, and that this nation is legally organized means that it has a body of laws that is established with fixed norms for the entire nation. In this sense, practically we can talk about many communities with laws and practically any form of political organization would be an State. This is not correct
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En la clase de hoy vamos a estar hablando del surgimiento de los estados modernos que se forman en el espacio europeo entre los siglos XV y XVI y que son una de las grandes características de esta edad moderna que surge precisamente en ese …
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4:55Chapter 2: Los estados tienen algunas características específicas. 305s · Speaker 2
Los estados tienen algunas características específicas. En particular, estos estados modernos se caracterizan por, en primer lugar, un alto grado de centralización del poder. Es decir que el poder político dentro del Estado está concentrado…
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10:02
En ese sentido, también aparece la figura del emperador, y para eso tenemos que remontarnos un poco a lo último que habíamos visto de la construcción política en la Edad Media, que había sido la desintegración y la fragmentación del Imperio…
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11:35
Al ser coronados por el Papa como emperadores, estos emperadores van a considerar a su imperio bajo el nombre de Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, lo cual significaba que era un imperio que reunía las tradiciones de Roma y de los germanos, de…
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14:12Chapter 5: para obtener esa soberanía y esa centralización de poder dentro de su territorio. 308s · Speaker 2
para obtener esa soberanía y esa centralización de poder dentro de su territorio. Utilizaron en particular cuatro herramientas o cuatro elementos básicos que todos estos estados desarrollaron y que solamente cuando los encontremos plenament…
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19:22
con la intención de establecer una población identificada con la figura del Estado y que pueda sentirse parte de un mismo territorio y de un mismo Estado, va a empezar a crearse en los inicios de la modernidad un conjunto de símbolos, que d…