Louis XIV and the Greatness of France - Book List

Essential

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

Wilkinson, R. Louis XIV
London: Routledge, 2007

Background

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

Bossuet. J Politics Drawn from the very Words of Holy Scripture. Patrick Riley, editor.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999

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

Holt, M.P. The French Wars of Religion 1562 - 1629
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

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

Louis XIV. Memories. Paul Sannino, editor.

Lynn, J.A. The French Wars 1667 - 1714: The Sun King at War
Oxford: Osprey, 2002

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

Munck, T. Seventeenth Century Europe: State, Conflict and the Social Order in Europe 1590 - 1700
London: Macmillan, 1990

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
November 2011

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