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Sunspots and the Sun King:

Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France
  • ISBN-13: 9780252030567
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Ellen McClure
  • Price: AUD $117.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2006
  • Format: Hardback 320 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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In order to assert his divine right, Louis XIV missed no opportunity to identify himself as God's representative on earth. However, in Sunspots and the Sun King Ellen McClure explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to reconcile the logical and mystical aspects of divine right monarchy. McClure analyzes texts devoted to definitions of sovereignty, presents a meticulous reading of Louis XIV's memoirs to the crown prince, and offers a novel analysis of diplomats and ambassadors as the mediators who preserved and transmitted the king's authority. McClure asserts that these discussions, ranging from treatises to theater, expose incommensurable models of authority and representation permeating almost every aspect of seventeenth-century French culture.

''How few truly interdisciplinary works we have, such as this one, that help bridge political and cultural parallels in history.''--''Renaissance Quarterly ''

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