Tony Claydon - Louis XIV Outside In: Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715

LOUIS XIV OUTSIDE IN

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN EUROPE, 16501750

Tony Claydon, Bangor University, UK

Hugh Dunthorne, Swansea University, UK

Charles-douard Levillain, Universit Paris VII Denis Diderot, France

Esther Mijers, The University of Edinburgh, UK

David Onnekink, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Focusing on the years between the end of the Thirty Years War and the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, this series seeks to broaden scholarly knowledge of this crucial period that witnessed the solidification of Europe into centralized nation states and created a recognizably modern political map. Bridging the gap between the early modern period of the Reformation and the eighteenth century of colonial expansion and industrial revolution, these years provide a fascinating era of study in which nationalism, political dogma, economic advantage, scientific development, cultural interests and strategic concerns began to compete with religion as the driving force of European relations and national foreign policies. The period under investigation, the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth, corresponds with the decline of Spanish power and the rise of French hegemony that was only to be finally broken following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. This shifting political power base presented opportunities and dangers for many countries, resulting in numerous alliances between formerly hostile nations attempting to consolidate or increase their international influence, or restrain that of a rival. These contests of power were closely bound up with political, cultural and economic issues: particularly the strains of state building, trade competition, religious tension and toleration, accommodating flows of migrants and refugees, the birth pangs of rival absolutist and representative systems of government, radical structures of credit, and new ways in which wider publics interacted with authority. Despite this being a formative period in the formation of the European landscape, there has been relatively little research on it compared to the earlier Reformation, and the later revolutionary eras. By providing a forum that encourages scholars to engage with the forces that were shaping the continent either in a particular country, or taking a trans-national or comparative approach it is hoped a greater understanding of this pivotal era will be forthcoming.

Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 16611715

Edited by
TONY CLAYDON
Bangor University, UK
CHARLES-DOUARD LEVILLAIN
Universit Paris VII Denis Diderot, France

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Louis XIV Outside In: Images of the Sun King beyond France, 1661-1715 / edited by

Tony Claydon and Charles-douard Levillain.

pages cm. (Politics and Culture in Europe, 16501750)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 Public opinion. 2. Government publicity France History 17th century. 3. Public opinion France History 17th century. 4. Public opinion Great Britain History 17th century. 5. Public opinion Netherlands History 17th century. 6. Political satire, English History and criticism. 7. Political satire, Dutch History and criticism. 8. English wit and humor, Pictorial. 9. Dutch wit and humor, Pictorial. I. Claydon, Tony, editor of compilation. II. Levillain, Charles-douard, editor of compilation.

DC128.5.L68 2015

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Tony Claydon is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University. He is interested in the political, religious, and cultural history of England in the later seventeenth century, and is author of William III and the Godly Revolution (1996); and Europe and the Making of England, 16601760 (2007); as well as numerous other works on early modern national identity, Protestantism, conceptions of time, sermon culture, and William III. He is also host of Bangors regular conference on the Restoration period in Britain and Ireland.

Elizabeth Edwards is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent. Since retirement she has been involved in an eclectic mix of projects, but her primary research interest remains the internal politics, and the international and trading relations, of the Dutch Republic in the latter part of the seventeenth century. In addition to work on the Amsterdam ruling class, she has written several articles on the politics and career of the Grand Pensionary, Gaspar Fagel.

Tim Harris is MunroGoodwinWilkinson Professor in European History at Brown University. He is the author of London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II (1987); Politics under the Later Stuarts (1993); Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 16601685 (2005); Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 16851720 (2006); and Rebellion: Britains First Stuart Kings, 15671642 (2014). His edited volumes include The Politics of Religion in Restoration England 16601688 (with Mark Goldie and Paul Seaward: 1990); Popular Culture in England, c. 15001850 (1995); The Politics of the Excluded, c. 15001850 (2001); The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, 16771691 (Volume III): The Reign of James II, 16851687 (2007); and The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 168891 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts (with Stephen Taylor, 2013).

Donald Haks is Lecturer in Dutch history at Leiden University, and was director of the Institute of Netherlands History between 1992 and 2010. His field