Louis XIV & Versailles;The English Civil Wars

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HIS 102 Western Civilization IIKara Heitz

Why do we obey laws? Who should rule and why?

Review: What is political legitimacy?

What is absolutism?

What is constitutionalism

Political Legitimacy

Louis XIV: rules France 1643-1715Versailles: under construction 1660-1688

How did life at Versailles reflect King Louis XIV's desire to be an absolute monarch?

What was absolutism in theory and in practice in France under Louis XIV?

Louis XIV, Versailles & Absolutism

Versailles in 1668

Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

Fountains at Versailles

Versailles today

Louis XIV’s Levée

What were the main issues in the struggle between king and Parliament in 17th century England? How were these struggled resolved?

English Civil War (1642-1651)

James I, Charles I and absolutismPetition of Right by Parliament (1628)Personal Rule by Charles I (1629-1640)Scottish Rebellion (1637-1640)Long Parliament (1640-1649)War between the King & Parliament (1642-1646)

Parliament wins & captures the kingPutney Debates (1647)Second round of fighting (1648-1649)Charles I tried and executed (1649)Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell (1649-1659)Monarchy restored under Charles II (1660)

English Civil War Timeline

Petition of Right

Trial and Execution of Charles I

Small Group Work

Petition of Right (1628)

Death Warrant for King Charles I (1649)

The execution of Charles I (1649)

(Almost) bloodless revolution James II starts asserting too

much powerDeposed by ParliamentParliament invites William

and Mary to be co-monarchs

Establishment of Constitutional Monarchy in EnglandParliament and the

monarchy share powerBill of Rights adopted

Glorious Revolution (1688)

“We neither live under the terror of despotic power nor are cast loose into the wildness of governing multitudes.”

- Archbishop of Canterbury at the coronation of William and Mary

Assignment: Hobbes and Locke

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) John Locke (1632-1704)