Questioning of authority and royalty give cause for new world-view. We begin to see a failure of both religion and secular power structures.
Authority becomes, in many ways, localized.
Note Luther, e.g. New interest in science. Learned discourse is no longer confined to the elite. Now, thanks to the public press, the world of ideas belongs to all who are literate. Of course, some confusion arises. Due to the recent strife of civil war and the Cromwellian interregnum, intellectualism moved to a discussion of standardization and the authority to maintain it.