The power of kings : monarchy and religion in Europe, 1589-1715 / Paul Kléber Monod.

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Monod, Paul Kléber

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585363285
9780585363288

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power of kings.DDC classification:

321/.6/0940903 21

LOC classification:

BR115.K55 M66 1999eb

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15.70

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Contents:

Introduction -- The sickness of the royal body, 1589-1610 -- The theatre of royal virtue, 1610-1637 -- No king but King Jesus, 1637-1660 -- The sign of the artificial man, 1660-1690 -- The state remains, 1690-1715 -- Conclusion.

Review: "Discussing monarchies throughout Europe, from Britain to Russia, Monod tells how sixteenth-century kings and queens were thought to heal the sick with a touch, were mediators between divine authority and the Christian self in quasi-religious ceremonies, and were seen as ideal mirrors of human identity. By 1715, the sacred authority of the monarchy had been supplanted by an ideology fusing internal moral responsibility with external obedience to an abstract political authority. Subjects were expected to identify not with a sacred king but with the natural person of the ruler. No longer divine, the kings and queens of the Enlightenment took up a new, more human place in the hearts and minds of their subjects."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-406) and index.

"Discussing monarchies throughout Europe, from Britain to Russia, Monod tells how sixteenth-century kings and queens were thought to heal the sick with a touch, were mediators between divine authority and the Christian self in quasi-religious ceremonies, and were seen as ideal mirrors of human identity. By 1715, the sacred authority of the monarchy had been supplanted by an ideology fusing internal moral responsibility with external obedience to an abstract political authority. Subjects were expected to identify not with a sacred king but with the natural person of the ruler. No longer divine, the kings and queens of the Enlightenment took up a new, more human place in the hearts and minds of their subjects."--Jacket.