Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521367820
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
Author : William Beik
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887381805
Author : David Parker
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : William Beik
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312133092
This unique collection of documents with commentary explores the meaning of absolute monarchy by examining how Louis XIV of France became one of Europe’s most famous and successful rulers. In the introduction, William Beik succinctly integrates the theoretical and practical nature of absolutism and its implications for the development of European states and society. The documents, newly translated and carefully selected for their readability, examine the problems of the Fronde, Colbert’s grasp of the economic and fiscal dimensions of the kingdom, the taming of the rural nobility, the interaction of royal ministers and provincial authorities, the repression of Jansenists and Protestants, popular rebellions, and royal image-making. Explanatory notes, a chronology, a map, a geneaology chart, and 9 striking images further strengthen this volume’s usefulness in the undergraduate classroom.
Author : John Miller
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Despotism
ISBN :
Annotation Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties. This was justified by a theory stressing the monarchs absolute power and his duty to place the good of his state before particular interests. The essays of this volume analyse this process in states at very different stages of economic and political development and assess the great gulf that often existed between the monarchs power in theory and in practice.
Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521883091
A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.
Author : Raymond Foster Kierstead
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
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Author : Alan James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317878906
This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal ‘absolutism’ on its head by redefining the French monarchy’s success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of absolutism, but that by satisfying long-established, traditional ambitions, cardinal ministers Richelieu and Mazarin undoubtedly made the confident, ambitious reign of the late century possible.
Author : Chloé Hogg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 081013943X
In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism’s feeling subjects and publics. Louis XIV’s subjects explored new kinds of affective relations with their sovereign, joining with the king in acts of aesthetic judgment, tender feeling, or the “newsiness” of emerging print news culture. Such alternative modes of adhesion countered the hegemonic model of kingship upheld by divine right, reason of state, or corporate fidelities and privileges with subject-driven attachments and practices. Absolutist Attachments discovers absolutism’s alternative political and cultural legacy—not the spectacle of an unbound king but the binding connections of his subjects.
