Analysis Of His Holiness Philip Ii Reform

PhilipⅡ's reformation was an important event in the developing process of French feudal society. There were some profound historical backgrounds in PhilipⅡ's reformation. Reclaiming wastelands spured progress of rural economy, which promoted urban revival. Urban revival not only changed economical structure but also social structure. City residents rised and gradually growed up, becaming a group of new political power. These all laid necessary economical and social foundation on PhilipⅡ's reformation.The purpose of PhilipⅡ's reformation was reinforcing the king's power. So extending royal territories and heightening royal economical strength were the prelude of reformation. As royal territories extended, PhilipⅡcarried on judicial and domestic reformation, establishing new official system. On one hand, PhilipⅡ's reformation enlarged royal political influence from place to place, greatly restrained feudal force's enhancing, which laid the territorial groundwork on the forming of French national country; On the other hand, it changed situation of feudal separatist rule which benefited the development of agricultural economy and trade, forming unified district in North France which was in the centre of Paris, which laid firm groundwork on later the whole French territories unifing.