Social Changes in the Fifteenth Century

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The paper explains that this was a period of great increase in male occupations such as notaries, lawyers, officials, and soldiers. The paper points out that women were removed from the work force as demonstrated by statutes showing outright discrimination against women in the trades. The paper relates that these changes, which occurred over a period of a hundred years, resulted in the movement towards a more centralized form of government.

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Nothing New
Upmarket Changes
The Day The Universe Changed

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"In 1215, a group of "barons" had confronted King John of England, but at that time, their baronetcies were not formal ones. In the 14th century, the summoning of a governing parliament, with two chambers (one representing the common folk and one the nobility) had been formed. A process to separated lords worthy of serving in parliament from the rest of the nobility (who had formed and amorphous crusading mass before, apparently) needed to be established. By the beginning of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, commentators like Sir Thomas Smith began to distinguish a greater nobility from a lesser nobility, or gentry. But the size of the greater nobility remained small, making it inevitable that it should rely upon the gentry for help in governing the country."

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