Slide 1Investiture Contest This is the struggle for supremacy between the papacy and the secular rulers of Europe. Slide 2 This controversy began in the 11 th and 12 th centuries…
Slide 1 Absolutism Slide 2 The monarch (king) was absolute, all power emanated from his unlimited authority. Divine Right Theory of Kings—The monarch was God’s representative…
Age of Absolutism: King Louis XIV Background on Louis XIV St. Bartholomewâs Day Massacre (1572) Huguenots (French Calvinists) slaughtered by Catholics in town for the royal…
Absolutism Absolutism Absolutism Absolutism The monarch (king) was absolute, all power emanated from his unlimited authority. Divine Right Theory of KingsâThe monarch was…