Louis XIV and Absolutism: A Brief Study with Documents by William Beik

Description: Louis XIV is associated with a setting, the court at Versailles, and a method of government, absolutism, that are both rather foreign to modern perceptions. Louis was part of a society very different from ours, and his personal and political styles reflect that fact. His regime of order was not a foregone conclusion, coming as it did after a generation of civil disorder. Nor was his absolute monarchy anything like the all-powerful reign that is sometimes imagined. To succeed, Louis XIV had to fashion an image that suited the expectations of the time and develop methods of coordinating the whole governmental apparatus more effectively. In this volume, we will explore the way Louis accomplished those two objectives. Our goal is to examine the meaning of absolute monarchy by looking at the was this king interacted with his society. We must ask how he handled the great nobles, what he offered to provincial elites and what he expected from them in return, how he influenced the economy, and what reaction ordinary subjects had to his rule. Above all we need to assess the nature of absolutism s one form of European state development.

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