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Author : Orest Ranum
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 0271046457
Author : Orest A. Ranum
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822032064313
By the eighteenth century Paris was one of the great wonders of Europe, renowned for its magnificent royal monuments and as a center for science, literature, and the arts. More so than any other European city, Paris reflected the spirit of an age--an age that reached its zenith with the reign of France's Sun King, Louis XIV. No book better captures that spirit than Orest Ranum's Paris in the Age of Absolutism, first published in 1968 and now reissued in a revised and expanded edition. Ranum's tour of Paris begins in the late 1500s with a French capital city exhausted by the violence of the Wars of Religion and proceeds through the long century that ends with the death of Louis XIV in 1715. Henry IV (1589-1610), head of the Bourbon branch of the royal family, laid the foundations of modern Paris, but it was during the mature years of his grandson, Louis XIV, and during the service of his visionary minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, that a New Rome was created. By 1715 the city was far different from what it had been in 1590. There were now large geometrical public squares with statues of the King at their focal point. There were arches of triumph, hospital-prisons, a new and gigantic wing on the Louvre, handsome stone bridges, streetlights, and massive stone quays along the Seine. Ranum ranges widely through the streets and quarters of Paris, attentive to the achievements of town planners, architects, and engineers as well as to city politics, social currents, and the spirit of religious reform. Behind it all lay the rule-creating authoritarianism of the absolute state, which, ironically, unleashed Parisians' creative impulses in everything from literature, painting, and music to architecture, mathematics, and physics. Paris in the Age of Absolutism is one of those rare books that combines elegant prose with stunning erudition, making it both captivating for general readers and challenging to scholars. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to take into account the wealth of scholarship that has appeared since 1968. Of particular note are a new introduction and a new chapter on women writers. A larger format accentuates a full selection of illustrations, many of them new to this edition.
Author : Orest A. Ranum
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Paris
ISBN : 0253202388
Author : Geoffrey Treasure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134980598
Mazarin was the model statesman of the early modern period in French history. This book follows his career from pupil of the Jesuits, through legate in Paris and Avignon, to service for Louis XIII and beyond. Mazarin's role in the survival of absolute monarchy during the upheavals of the Fronde and his guidance of the young Louis XIV are given full weight. His crucial part in many diplomatic exchanges, and in particular those which brought an end to the Thirty Years War and the Franco-Spanish War, is examined in detail. His life is placed in the context of a study of the times, highlighting the rapidly changing nature of government.
Author : Maurice Ashley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89002392249
Illustrated the impact of diverse movements and various individuals on European history and on development in the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere.
Author : A. D. Lublinskaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521088437
Provides a detailed analysis of the political, social and economic history of the France of Louis XIII.
Author : Ragnhild Marie Hatton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349169818
Author : Albert N. Hamscher
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0871697726
This vol., while encompassing the entire reign of Louis XIV & all the parlements of the realm, has the narrow focus of investigating the impact of royal policy on the judicial authority of the parlements as revealed in their relations with the king's councils, notably the one that specialized in judicial affairs, the Conseil Prive. This is above all a study of the evolution of conciliar jurisprudence & judicial procedure, as much an exercise in what the French call "l'histoire du droit" as an opportunity to observe in a novel way the resolution of some of the most pressing political problems in the Age of Louis XIV. But the overall aim is to understand the practical consequences of royal absolutism for the kingdom's highest judicial institutions.
Author : Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0887381804
Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0521367824
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
Author : Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322245
The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author : Yves Marie Bercé
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0312158009
Yves-Marie Berce's THE BIRTH OF ABSOLUTISM offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of France between the Edict of Nantes and the personal rule of Louis XIV, a period dominated by the names of two cardinals - Richelieu and Mazarin. Berce brings to the task not only familiarity with the sources and with French historiography, but also a thorough knowledge of the large body of English and American research on seventeenth-century France. This has enabled him to escape the diminishing perspective of the older French school, the 'grand history told from Paris' which reduced the course of events to an account of the inevitable triumph of the 'Royal state'. Berce emphasises the degree to which the French Crown remained beset by an aristocratic faction only too ready to avail itself of royal minorities, religious dissent or provincial grievances in the pursuit of its own ambitions.
Author : Henri-Jean Martin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801854199
The book as the subject of a distinct historical discipline dates from the landmark publication of L'Apparition du livre by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin in 1958. In this further contribution to his pathbreaking work with Febvre, eminent French historian Henri-Jean Martin explores the role of the book and book industry in early modern France. Martin begins with a sweeping look at the revolutionary role played by the new technology of printing in Europe of the Renaissance and Reformation. Shifting the focus to France, he then examines the political implications of publishing in the reign of Francis I, including such topics as the founding of royal and university libraries, the role of church-state relations, Richelieu's cultural program, and censorship. In revealing case studies of Rouen and Grenoble, Martin pinpoints precisely which books were sold and to which social groups, and explains why the initially successful printers of Rouen were eventually forced out of business by the Parisian courts. Martin also casts a discerning eye on early graphic design—from the first illustrated "coffee table" books purchased by the newly rich to the invention of the paragraph to facilitate reading. And he shows how attempts by the French government to suppress and control publication were eventually thwarted by free market forces from Amsterdam and Neufchatel. This is a book that will be of interest to those who study the history of the book, intellectual history of early modern Europe, and the relation between politics and ideas.
Author : William Farr Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015008614482
Author : Nicholas Henshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317899532
Conventionally, ``absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.