HIST110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Aristocracy, Fronde, Meritocracy
5 Feb 2015
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Lecture 20: age of absolutism defining & limiting government enhance liberty of individual group decision making. Consent of governed provided basis for legitimacy of regime. Absolutism emphasized role of state: specific purpose:nationalism, religion, or the glory of the monarch usual form was kingship nobility could oppose or serve power of the state. Political theories theories of resistance to a government: luther and calvin disapproved of revolt against government, john knox"s first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of. Six books of the commonweal(1576) replacing local authorities with intendants. Huguenots a virtual state within a state, causing problems for french monarchs. Mothers of both(marie de" medici & anne of austria) ruled as regents, needed support. 1610, louis xiii came to throne aged 9. 1643 louis xiv came to throne aged 5 of ministers : cardinal richelieu (1585-1642, cardinal mazarin (1602-61) Louis xiii (r. 1610-1643) father was henry iv (1589-1610: struggled to control nobility and parlement of paris (french spelling)
