History 1401E Lecture : Europe 1715.docx

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Europe 1715: name given to the government during this time called ancien regime, at the time it wasn"t old style it was a modern form of government at the time, has an icky condemnation about it, this period lasted from 1660 1789, term to define europe before the french revolution, there were different types of governments during this time french aristocrats systems were authoritarian monarchical etc. Instead of relying on the church for guidance people started looking towards a secular state for protection secular meaning the separation of church and state: organized subjects of a certain region, thomas hobbes political thinker of the 1650"s and 1660s leviathan, obedience to the state must be total, bossuet established a theory of government known as absolutism means every king has a certain power held by the crown, when governments are being formed in the 1660s these are the models most took.

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