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Q1:Catalina asked the king for a pension as a reward for her "rectitude and rare purity" and her service to Spain. What do you think she sought to be rewarded for? Attached Files

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Reading questions for Erauso pp. 39-80

What bothers her while she’s being led to execution? (43)

After she kills someone in La Paz, how does she escape? (50)

What happens after she encounters a Dutch fleet? (52)

Under what circumstances does she first reveal the truth about herself? (56)

After she kills a constable, how does she escape? (60)

Why is meeting with the bishop in Guamanga a turning point for her? (64)

Why does she leave the convent this time? (69)

What does the king do for her? (74)

Whom does she meet in Rome? (78)

Catalina asked the king for a pension as a reward for her "rectitude and rare purity" and her service to Spain. What do you think she sought to be rewarded for?

What is your reaction to the final chapter?

How would you describe Catalina's outlook on her society and how it treats women? Is she critical of it? Explain why you believe the answer is yes or no.

Lecture key words:

Descartes and Newton

Politics Taken from the Very Words of Scripture (Bossuet, 1709)

English Revolution (1642-49)

Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism

Agricultural Revolution

Lecture detail:

Scientific Revolution

Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637), cogito ergo sum

Isaac Newton: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), motion and "weight"

Absolutism

Jean Bodin(1530-1596)

Sovereignty is absolute and indivisible

One sovereign holds all power and should never be resisted ("passive obedience")

Divine right (Proverbs 8:15-16 and Romans 13:1-2) and Patriarchalism

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet(1627-1704), Politics...Scripture (1709)

"[T]he royal throne is not the throne of man, but the throne of God himself."

"[T]he person of the king is sacred..."

"The prince need render account of his acts to no one."

France

15-18 million in 1648, largest and strongest continental power

Growth of armies, police states

Constitutionalism

King James I vs. House of Commons

Charles I vs. the "Long Parliament"

Civil War and Revolution 1642-49

Execution of Charles I

Oliver Cromwell

Restoration monarchy

William and Mary

Model for revolutions

Revolution vs. evolution

Preconditions, precipitants, triggers

Reformation

Charles I, economy

Royalist party

Agricultural Revolution

New crops, new planting practices

Population growth 1700-1800

Great Britain 6.5-9 million

France 20-28 million

Spain 6-10.4 million

Russia 14-28 million

Q1:Catalina asked the king for a pension as a reward for her "rectitude and rare purity" and her service to Spain. What do you think she sought to be rewarded for?