The Age of Absolutism

Course Topics:

• Absolutism

• Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles

• Constitutionalism

• The Glorious Revolution

• Ancient and Medieval Cosmology

• The Scientific Revolution 1

• The Scientific Revolution 2

• 17th-Century Thought: Hobbes

• 17th-Century Thought: Locke

• The Legacy of the Enlightenment

• The Idea of Progress

• The Enlightenment

Links:

• Baroque Architecture, from Claudia Lazzaro, Renaissance and Baroque Art History, Cornell University
• The Age of Absolutism Web Links