HIST 103g Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Gallican Church, Russian Empire, Grand Embassy Of Peter The Great
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Protestant: theodore beza (geneva) and george buchanan (scotland) Thinks there are times when the monarch can be too strong and he needs to be taken down. Once he is a tyrant and doesn"t complete his contract, can be overthrown. Once the king goes against religion, breaking the contract. Theories of power in the special collection, for the extra credit. Jean bodin, six books of the commonwealth (1576) Give the law to subjects without their consent. James vi the true law of free monarchies (1598) Jacques bossuet, politics drawn from the very words of holy scripture (1679) Before, nobles would bring men to you when there was war. Now, always have a ready army, always training. Expand nobility, but it breaks the power of old family ties. With science, it"s heliocentric, so everything revolves around the sun. He gets all the sons of the nobles to dance around him. There are also statues of him around town.
