HIST1083 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pope Clement Viii, Habeas Corpus, Constitutional Basis Of Taxation In Australia
Lecture 10.6.16
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Royal Absolutism (1643-1715)
• The 4 states that survived the 30 Year War, went in different direction
o Focus all power on single individual (absolutism), divine authority
o King concedes power to some factions→England→king concedes to parliament
• Absolutism sows seeds for future conflicts/revolutions
o Causes resentment
• Louis XIV – known as the sun king because he thought the universe revolved around him
• Absolutism
o The monarch has absolute power oer the state ad his sujets I a the “tate
o Authority is unchallengeable, divine right of kings
o The monarch controls taxation, law, and especially the military
▪ King can send you to prison for the rest of your life with no habeus corpus
o Nobles are tamed, king appoints his loyalists
▪ Crush the nobility so no one gets any ideas
▪ Appoints people he trusts
• Henry IV (1589-1610)
o Converted from Calvinism
o Ended religious wars
o Issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598
▪ Idea that he state would be peaceful and the state would now control religion
o Shook up nobility
• Edict of Nantes 1598
o State-guarantee of Huguenot rights
o State unity prioritized over religious unity
o Temporary end to religious wars in France
o This ruifies e – Pope Clement VIII
• Estates General
o Powerless national assembly but has ceremonial status
o 3 estates: clergy, nobles, all others
o Origins in 1300s
o Advised king when required
o Not used between 1614 and 1788
• Royal Shake up
o Noles of the “ord olesse depee
▪ For hundreds of years had been holding their power to themselves
▪ Selfishly keeping power that they got from the king
▪ Kinda like old money
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