HIST 3037

This course examines the growing attraction of strong monarchy in Europe after the turbulent era of the Thirty Years War. Louis XIV played a preponderant role in this trend, but the course will also examine the royal regimes in the Spanish European empire (Spain, Italy, Low Countries), the Habsburg lands of Central Europe, the last Stuart kings in Britain, the House of Orange in the Dutch Republic, and the rise of ambitious princes in Savoy, Brandenburg and Saxony-Poland.