The Age of Louis XIV

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII

Will Durant, Ariel Durant

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781451647655
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

Index

Dates in parentheses following a name are of birth and death except when preceded by r., when they indicate duration of reign for popes and rulers of states. A single date preceded by fl. denotes a floruit. A footnote is indicated by an asterisk. Italicized page numbers indicate principal treatment. All dates are A.D. unless otherwise noted.

Abbeville, France, 23

Abélard, Pierre (1079–1142), 609, 686

abiogenesis, 520, 521

Abjuration Act (England, 1702), 705

Aboab, Isaac, da Fonseca (1605–93), 459

Abrabanel, Isaac (1437–1508), 609

Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden), 223, 224–226, 505*

absolutism and divine right, 286, 308, 368, 369, 413, 414, 453

of Alexis of Russia, 375

Anglican Church position on, 253, 301

Bossuet’s treatise on, 77–78

Charles II of England and, 277

of Charles XII of Sweden, 369

Cromwell and, 191, 254

English Parliament’s modification of, 298–99

Fénelon’s views on, 84

Filmer’s treatise on, 253, 579–580

Hobbes’s formulations on, 549, 556–57, 560, 561, 563

James II and, 288–89, 290

Locke’s views on, 580

Louis XIV and, 6, 10, 12, 14–15, 290, 721

Peter the Great and, 375, 396

popes and, 49, 431

Spinoza’s views on, 652, 659

Academia Secretorum Naturae (Naples), 495

Académie de l’Opéra (Paris), 33

Académie de Musique (Paris), 33

Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture (Paris), 87

Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris), 87, 89, 97, 98, 99, 434

see also French Academy

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris), 130

Académie des Sciences (Paris), 23, 496, 499, 533, 6...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Book I: The French Zenith 1643–1715
• Book II: England 1649–1714
• Book III: The Periphery 1648–1715
• Book IV: The Intellectual Adventure 1648–1715
• Book V: France Against Europe 1683–1715
• Photographs
• About the Authors
• Notes
• Bibliographical Guide
• Index
• Copyright