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I. Imagining the modern state . It\'s good to be the King
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1. L’etat, C’est moi! The State Supreme

2. I. Imagining the modern state It’s good to be the King…sometimes Louis XIV, r. 1643-1715 The Fronde, 1649-52

3. A. The Renaissance 1350-1650 Machiavelli The Prince 1513 How things are v. how they ought to be

4. B. The Reformation Religion and nationalism - Fragmentation v. universalism - Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation 1521

5. C. Decline in Church Primacy 1. State Sovereignty - Henry VIII, Act of Supremacy 1535 - Charles V, Peace of Augsburg 1555 - Peace of Westphalia 1648

6. II. Forging the Modern State

7. A. Decline of medieval “empires” 1. Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent r. 1520-1566 Battle of Lepanto 1571

8. 2. Poland “elective monarchy” - frontier-less - anti-Semitism

9. 3. Spain and Beyond Charles V (Habsburg)

10. Philip II r. 1550-1598 Revolt of the Netherlands The Spanish Armada (1588)

11. 4. The Austrian Habsburgs

12. Perils of Progress Wars of religion Price Revolution Enclosure - urbanization

13. “Life is nasty, brutish and short” Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, 1660 Absolutism “It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”

14. III. Absolutism? Absolutely! King James (VI & I) True Law of Free Monarchies – 1598 - material/spiritual well-being - sacred obedience - sovereignty lies in the monarch Joseph II of Austria 1780-1790 - reason and the state - “enlightened despotism”

15. A. France: “reason of state” Henry IV d. 1610 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 1572 Edict of Nantes 1598 monopolies 2. Cardinal Richelieu d. 1642 (Louis XIII) intendants Habsburg wars France before individuals, classes, or Church Mazarin

16. The Sun King Louis XIV 3. “I am the state” dismissed assemblies direct rule / appointments professional army Gallicanism Edict of Fontainebleau 1685 Jansenism

17. 4. King’s Men bourgeois bureacracy Jean-Baptiste Colbert mercantilism

18. 5. “I have loved war too much” Natural borders Alliances Habsburgs War of the League of Augsburg War of Spanish Succession

19. 6. Cult of personality Versailles

20. The Grand Embassy 1697-98 Peter Mikhailov

21. B. Czar of all the Russias 1. Peter I “The Great” 1689-1725 - Westernization - Baltic expansion St. Petersburg - state service of nobles - serfs as slaves Romanovs Eastern Expansion

22. 2. Catherine “the Great” r. 1762-1796 - un-Enlightenment 1773 revolt - southern, western expansion

23. C. Germany stirs HRE? Reformation Westphalia 1648 Siege of Vienna 1683 Leopold I r. 1657-1705 Habsburg Dynasty

24. 2. Hohenzollerns (Prussia) - militarism / state service Frederick William I

25. IV. Enlightened Despots A well conducted government must have an underlying concept so well integrated that it could be likened to a system of philosophy…All financial, political and military matters must flow towards one goal…the strengthening of the state and the furthering of its power. - Frederick II “The Great” d. 1786

26. A. “Servant of the state” Philosophes Joseph II d. 1790

27. Austrian Habsburg Dynasty Maria Teresa 1740-1780 Joseph II 1780-1790 - religious toleration - abolished torture - equality before the law - abolished serfdom

28. B. When divas ruled 1. Baroque / Rococo style

29. Catherine Palace Sanssouci

30. C. R & D 1. Science and the state - Académie des Sciences 1666 - Royal Academy 1660 Christopher Wren. d. 1723 Benjamin Franklin d. 1790

31. So…. Absolute rulers helped early modern states negotiate fundamental social and economic change… …but Absolutism itself would become the target of reformers.



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