Question

name the various group in which European society was divided​

Answer 1

Answer:

Please refer to the answer below.

Explanation:

Early modern society was hierarchical. According to the French lawyer Charles Loyseau (1564–1627), the division of people into different ranks was crucial to social stability:

Because we cannot live together in equality of condition, it is necessary that some command and others obey … Sovereign lords command all within their state, addressing their commands to the great; the great [address their commands] to the middling, the middling to the small, and the small to the people … Thus by means of these multiple divisions and subdivisions, the several orders make up a general order, and the several Estates a state well ruled.

Although society remained hierarchical throughout the early modern period, the structure of that hierarchy changed over time.