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What are the functions of an early modern monarch? |
Strong, justice, security, Prestige |
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What does justice mean? |
Respect your people |
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What does security mean? |
Safety of the people, not to be over throne |
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What does prestige mean? |
widespread respect & admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or quality |
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Personal Monarchy |
centred on the court by the rituals and values which was deployed in the Renaissance to achieve the "imagination" of majesty |
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Tudor despotism |
the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel & oppressive way |
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Great Chain of Being |
the universe had its "place" in a divinely planned hierarchical order, which was pictured as a chain vertically extended |
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Sacred monarchy |
connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose & so deserving veneration, religious rather than secular |
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Royal court |
where the King lived e.g. Hampton Court |
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Privy Chamber |
was the private apartment of a royal residence in England |
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Faction |
a small organized opinionated group within a larger one, especially in politics |
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The Nobility |
social class with privileges |
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Parliament |
House of Lords & the House of Commons |
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Lord Chancellor |
Highest political position, King's advisor |
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King's council |
a group of people who advise the King |
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Privy Council |
was the hub of the Tudor political system - an elite executive board, governed England under the crown |
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Star Chamber |
was an English court of Law which sat at the royal palace of Westminster |
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Statue Law |
written law set down by a legislature or by a legislator |
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Common Law |
is a system of judicial supremacy (relating to administration of justice) |
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Canon Law |
is a system of legislative supremacy (having the power to make laws) |
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Proclamations |
a public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance |