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The Dream of Absolutism Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

Paperback • 2021 • English

The Dream of Absolutism Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

By Hall Bjørnstad

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The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV. What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do? In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall Bjørnstad argues that the exuberance of Louis XIV’s reign was not top-down propaganda in an...Show more

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9780226803838

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

The Dream of Absolutism Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

Format

Paperback

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