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Revolt of the Comuneros of Castile

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:33 +0000

The War of the Communities of Castile, or the Revolt of the Comuneros, took place during the reign of Charles I, between 1520 and 1522. It was an armed uprising led by the so-called “comuneros” from the inland cities of Castile, with Toledo and Valladolid at the head of the uprising. This uprising has been interpreted in different ways, as an anti-seigneurial revolt, as one of the first bourgeois revolutions, or even as an anti-fiscal movement. It was motivated by the political instability present in the Crown of Castile from the beginning of the 16th century. The arrival of Charles I in Castile around 1517, barely knowing how to speak Castilian and bringing with him a large number of Flemish nobles and clerics as his court, provoked misgivings among the Castilian elites, who felt a certain displacement and feared the loss of their power and status. This discontent was transmitted to the popular strata. This was compounded by tax demands that provoked a series of urban revolts. After a year of rebellion, the communist leaders Padilla, Bravo and Maldonado were beheaded in 1521, and the communist army fell into disarray. Toledo maintained its rebellion until 1522. In some territories such as Andalusia, for example, the uprising had little impact, as the cities were dominated by the nobility and remained loyal to the king. Only Jaén, Baeza and Úbeda supported the rebellion until 1521. The image is a photograph of the work by Antonio Gisbert Pérez, “Ejecución de los Comuneros de Castilla” (“Execution of the Comuneros de Castilla”), kept in the Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, which was photographed by Juan Laurent y Minier in 1871 for the National Exhibition of that year. It depicts the execution of the Comuneros Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado on 24 April 1521 at Villalar.

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Charles V, a monarch, an empire and a sword. Memory of Spain

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:59 +0000

Episode 12 of the documentary series “Memories of Spain”. The descriptor that appears on the rtve a la carte website contains the following summary: Charles of Gaunt, son of Joan the Mad and Philip the Fair of Austria, comes to the throne of Spain. Thus Charles I of Spain and V of Germany (1500-1558) entered history. Charles was the grandson on his mother’s side of the Catholic Monarchs and on his father’s side of Maximilian, Emperor of Austria. When he arrived in Spain, the Communards confronted him in Castile. But Charles consolidated his power. He defeats Francis I of France at Pavia and the Turkish Suleiman the Magnificent. In his time Luther carries out the Protestant Reformation. When Charles dies, his son Philip II inherits a great empire. Shots from the TVE programme Los comuneros by José A. Páramo are used. It has the advice of Ricardo García Cárcel and its duration is 51:29 minutes

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16th century Spain

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000

Website of Professor Juan Carlos Ocaña which explains the block of content on “16th century Spain”, adapted to the subject of Spanish History of Second Baccalaureate (2005), which includes the following sections: The Empire of Charles V: internal conflicts. Communities and Germanies; The Hispanic Monarchy of Philip II: Iberian unity; 16th century Spain: the political model of the Habsburgs. The union of kingdoms; Economy and society in 16th-century Spain; Culture and mentalities in 16th-century Spain

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Spain in the 16th century

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000

Kairos is an educational project of the National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training of the Ministry of Education, directed by Dr. Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras. Along with methodological contributions aimed at reinforcing the teaching of history, it contains proposals for the development of History content taught in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. This content refers to the unit “La España del Siglo XVI” for the subject History of Spain Bachillerato (2006).

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