HY 102 Chapter 15: HY 1-17-18 chapter 15 notes
17 Jan 2018
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Political theory that encouraged rulers to claim complete sovereignty within their territories. An absolute monarch could make law, dispense justice, create and direct a bureaucracy, declare war, and levy taxes without the approval of any other governing body. An efficient, centralized bureaucracy that owed its allegiance to the monarch was necessary to weaken the special interests that hindered the free exercise of the royal power. Wary cooperation between kings and nobles were more common than open conflict during the 18th century under absolutism. Fundamentally an approach to government by which ambitious monarchs could increase their own power through conquest and display. His administrators devoted much of their time to collecting the taxes necessary to finance the large standing army on which his aggressive foreign policy depended. Louis persecuted quiestists and jansenists, offering them a choice of recanting and prison or exile. Supported jesuits in their efforts to create a counter-reformation catholic church in.
