Louis XIV and the Greatness of France - Book List

Reading List

Beloff, M. The Age of Absolutism 1660 - 1815
London: Hutchinson, 1954.
(Chapters 1-3)

Bluche, F. Louis XIV
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Bonney, R. The European Dynastic States 1494 - 1660
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Burke, P. The Fabrication of Louis XIV
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Chaline, O. 'The Kingdoms of France and Navarre: The Valois and Bourbon Courts c.1515 - 1750'. The princely courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture under the Ancient Regime 1500 - 1750. J. Adamson, ed.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.

Constans, C. (ed.) Splendors of Versailles
Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Arts Pavilion, 1998.

Doyle, W. The Old European Order 1660 - 1800
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Duindam, J. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550 - 1780
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Edmunds, M. Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles
London: Associated University Presses, 2002.

Erlanger, P. The Age of Courts and Kings: Manners and Morals 1558 - 1715
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.

Henshall, N. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy
London: Longman, 1992.

Hibbert, C. Versailles
New York: Newsweek, 1972.

Lablaude, P-A. The Gardens of Versailles
London: Zwemmer, 1995.

Maland, D. Europe in the Seventeenth Century
London: Macmillan, 1966.

Miller, J. (ed.) Absolutism in Seventeenth Century Europe
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990
(Chapters 1-2)

Miller, J. Bourbon and Stuart: Kings and Kingship in France and England in the Seventeenth Century
London: George Philip, 1987.

Parker, D. The Making of French Absolutism
London: Edward Arnold, 1983.

Spencer, C. Blenheim: Battle for Europe
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

Walton, G. Louis XIV's Versailles
Harmondsworth: Penguin/Viking, 1986.

Andrew Lacey
July 2010

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