Sixteenth-century bourgeoisies were not lineal descendants of medieval ones

Evidence

The city, the point of departure for the earlier bourgeoisies and their networks of long-distance trade and productive organization, proved to be incapable of sustaining the economic recovery of those bourgeoisies situated where the merchant town had reached its highest development: northern Italy, western Germany, the Netherlands, and the Baltic. The Absolutist State, under the hegemony of western European aristocracies, brought forth a new bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 177 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Absolutist State, not the merchant town, created the modern bourgeoisie — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 177; The rising-middle-class narrative is unsupported by historical evidence; Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism (+2 more)

Related

• The Absolutist State, not the merchant town, created the modern bourgeoisie (similarity 0.90)
• Merchant bourgeois wealth, not the poor, first eroded aristocratic dress codes. (similarity 0.86)
• Italy’s communal bourgeoisie failed to transcend the economic-corporate phase and form a national state (similarity 0.82)
• European capitalism emerged from particular national states, not an universal sequential order (similarity 0.82)
• Fourteenth-century catastrophes shaped which European bourgeoisies built the world system (similarity 0.81)
• Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• Merchant colonies outside feudal fortresses founded medieval Europe’s cities. (similarity 0.80)
• By the seventeenth century the new bourgeoisies held purely mercantilist ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Europe’s bourgeoisie originated as roving, often unfree foreign merchants who founded the medieval cities. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Absolutist State, not the merchant town, created the modern bourgeoisie #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 177
• Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism #expands (0.68)
• The rising-middle-class narrative is unsupported by historical evidence #corroborates (0.60)
• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development #responds-to (0.55)