By Tony Claydon,Charles-Édouard Levillain,Charles-Édouard, Professor Levillain,Tony, Professor Claydon
Louis XIV - the ‘Sun King’ - casts a protracted shadow over the historical past of 17th- and eighteenth-century Europe. but whereas he has been the topic of diverse works, a lot of the scholarship continues to be firmly rooted inside of nationwide frameworks and traditions. hence in France Louis remains to be mainly remembered for the luxurious baroque tradition his reign ushered in, and his political achievements in wielding jointly a powerful centralised French country; while in England, the Netherlands and different protestant states, his reminiscence is that of an competitive army tyrant and persecutor of non-Catholics.
In order to attempt to wreck freed from such parochial strictures, this quantity builds upon the method of students similar to Ragnhild Hatton who've tried to situate Louis’ legacy inside of broader, pan-European context. yet the place Hatton centred totally on geo-political topics, Louis XIV outdoors In introduces present pursuits in cultural historical past, integrating features of creative, literary and musical topics. specifically it examines the formula and use of pictures of Louis XIV overseas, focusing on Louis' neighbours in north west Europe. This large geographical assurance demonstrates how pictures of Louis XIV have been moulded through the polemical wishes of individuals faraway from Versailles, and distorted from any French originals by way of the actual political and cultural conditions of various countries. as the French regime’s skill to manage the general public picture of its chief used to be very constrained, the gathering highlights how - at the least within the sphere of public presentation - his energy used to be often denied, subverted, or appropriated to very assorted reasons, wondering the bounds of his absolutism which has additionally been this kind of characteristic of contemporary work.
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