Age of Absolutism Flippy Notes

Louis 5 Rules of Absolutism & Englands 5 Problems of Absolutism

Slide Lecture Guided Note Taking Activity

#1: The King Must Be Godlike

#2: The King Must Be In Control

#2: The King Must Be In Control

#3: The King Must Be Wealthy

The King Must Impose Religious Conformity

The King Must Have An Army

#1: The Problem of Royal Personality

#2: The Problem of Royal Control

#3: Problem of Royal Finance#4: Problem of Religiose Conflict

#5: The Problem of No Army

5 Rules of Absolutism1. The Fronde, 30 Years War, & Louis Absolutist Project2. The King must be Godlike

1. Devine right unabashedly wielded2. A Nationwide program of magnificence3. Royal academies of art, music, literature, science with strict sensorship4. Declared the style was to be classical & portrayed himself as the Apallo or the sun itself – Copernican5. Versailles, 50, 20, 20

3. King Must be in Control1. Louis worked tirelessly personally supervising the beurocracy2. Assembled a corps of professional secretaries and administrators drawn not from the nobility but from the ranks of professional men3. Used intendants4. Never, never called an Estates General

4. King must be wealthy1. Jean-Baptiste Colbett continued centralizing the economy and pursuing a policy of merchantilism, tax reform [25-80% take], internal

improvements, promotion of manufacture5. King must impose Religious conformity

1. Revolkes the Edict of Nantes in 18852. Expels Hugonots, harming the economy in the long run

6. King must have an Army1. Reform of the Army made the French Army the most professional fighting force in Europe2. Louis used it to try and get the Spanish Throne seen as ripe during the reing of Carlose II (El Hechizado)3. Opposed by the Dutch (William of Orange) with whom he fought a series of wars on the border4. 9 Years War & War of Spanish Succession brought Louis into it with England …

5 Problems of English Monarchs1. Problem of Personality

1. Fine if your Henry, even Elizabeth, Stuarts, not so much2. Scotish, and strict high Anglicans

2. The Problem of Control & Sovereignty1. Henry had to rely on Parliamentary legislation to throw the Pope out2. Each successor did the same in their religious settlements3. James did not get along with Parliament so couldn’t afford a beurocracy

3. Problem of Finance1. Parliament had sole tax authority2. Henry VIII should have had a jump on aristocrats with Church but he squandered it, ultimately enriching the nobility!3. James never called Parliament was a Party Animal, tripled royal debt from 300k to 1 million pounds4. James dissolved Parliament in 1629, relied on dubiouse Danegeld taxes that provoked a tax strike in 16385. Bishops War 1637, led to calling Parliament

4. Problem of Religion1. James and Charles strict high Anglicans2. Maried a Chatholic French Princess3. Persecuted Puritans for not conforming to Anglican rituals4. Bishops War began when Charles imposed the Anglican Prayer book on Presbyterian Scottland

5. The Problem of Affording an Army1. James had been Rex Pacificus infuriating most2. Charles had to rely on Cavaliers during the Civil War and he lost

Age of Absolutism Flippy Notes

Hobbsian Early Modern Absolute MonarchiesLockean Constitutional Alternatives

17th & 18th Century Wars

An Example

Symbol Rule Explanation

The King Must Be Godlike

The monarch becomes the personification of the entire state and then creates a program to celebrate his awesomeness and hence the nations greatness

The King Must Be

In Control

The Monarch must be in control: the monarch rules directly through a professional bureaucracy directly answerable to him. The King does not share power with nobles or parliaments

The King Must Be Wealthy

Absolutists are attracted to mercantilism and centralizing control of the economy to increase tax revenue. Tax authority is absolute and used to pay for rules 1,2,&5!

The King Must

Impose Religious Conformi

ty

How can subjects accept the King as God’s representative on earth, how could they even be loyal if they worship differently?

The King Must

Have An Army

Professional Army with trained conscripts and military reforms create the expensive means to enforce #1-4. Societies are inclined to accept costs and sacrifices after the Thirty Years War

Symbol Problem Explanation

The Problem of Royal Personality

Monarch’s lack physical, intellectual, psychological characteristics that allow them to pass for God on Earth

The Problem of Sovereignty/ Control

Having to go through Parliaments to govern brings into question who is really sovergn

The Problem of Royal Finance

Parliament has the right to approve or disapprove taxes. Monarch’s desire for programs of magnificence are not going to appeal to Parliaments

The Problem of Religion

Religious toleration and diversity leaves extremests of various parties scheming to force the country to their views

The Problem of foreign policy

Monarchs who are poor and religiously divided are incapable of advancing personal foreign policy agendas

Louis 5 Rules of Absolutism British Monarch’s 5 Problems Preventing Absolutism

Enlightened Absolutism

Symbol Definition Examples

Domain of Knowledge:Henry XVIII(all Tudor monarch’s really)Elizabeth IStuart Monarchs (all 4!)Declaration of RightOliver CromwellHobbes & LockeEnglish Bill of RightsLouis XIVVersaillesIntendantsJean Baptiste ColbertFredrick William

Junkers & SerfsFrederick William 1st

Frederick the GreatPeter the GreatCatherine the GreatMaria TheresaJoseph IIGlorious RevolutionWar of the League of AugsburgWar of Spanish SuccessionTreaty of UtrechtSeven Years’ War American Revolution

Age of Absolutism Flippy Note General Requirements

1. Flippy note assignment ties together the political and diplomatic history of the Early Modern Era, ca. 1648-1783 (why those dates?)

2. Flippy notes display “Louis 5 Rules of Absolutism” and “Britain's 5 Problems Preventing Absolutism” and an explanation of “Enlightened Monarchy” with your flippy notes

3. Have a map that puts politics and war into geographic context4. Have a timeline that put politics and war into temporal context5. Have Hobbes and Locke hovering above the whole project

commenting from their seminal texts.6. Includes rich detail that allows you to master testes and essays

on these subjects.

Age of Absolutism Flippy Requirements: Politics

Make a Flippy note that explores how each of the nations below developed a centrally administered monarchal state in the Early Modern Era. Include the indicated features.1. Flippy for:France, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Russia, England, Dutch Republic2. Each Nations Flippy has the nations name and the symbols of the “5 Rules/5

Problems” that attain on the outside3. Inside each Flippy explains the “5 Rules” and/or “5 Problems” each nation

employed in the creation of their state. 4. Inside the flippy you note the important monarchs and the times of their riegn for

each nation5. Give each nation a Grade: A-F for achieving absolute political power without

partners. Assume that it is Louis the XIV himself giving the grade. Explain your grade and the basis for giving it.

6. Consider putting the Grade boldly on the cover in addition to the symbols7. Label nations on your map

Age of Absolutism Flippy Note Requirements: War and Diplomacy

Make a Flippy Note for the wars of the early Modern Era1. Make a flippy for each of the following wars: English Civil War, Glorious

Revolution, War of the League of Augsburg, War of the Spanish Succession, Seven Years’ War, American Revolution

2. Have a bold label for each war’s flippy on exterior3. Inside explain the causes, the course, and the effects of each war. 4. Make sure that you include discussion of dynastic ambitions, mercantilist

policies, and balance of power considerations with respect to each war.5. Put each war on your timeline using color and key appropriately