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Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization: Part VIII - hardcover
ISBN: 9780671012151
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster. A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza: 1648-1715.… More...
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Story of Civilization, Vol VIII: Age of Louis XIV: Volume VIII: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliaere, Cromwell, ... 1648-1715 (The Story of Civilization, Band 8) - hardcover1980, ISBN: 9780671012151
Simon & Schuster, Gebundene Ausgabe, 816 Seiten, Publiziert: 1980-12-25T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.32 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2927636, Frankreich, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politi… More...
Story of Civilization, Vol VIII: Age of Louis XIV: Volume VIII: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliaere, Cromwell, ... 1648-1715 (The Story of Civilization, Band 8) - hardcover
1980
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"The Age of Louis XIV "is the biography of a period (1648 1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. Some centuries hence, Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, they will translate the good authors of the age of Pericles and Augustus. Those authors are lovingly treated here: Pascal, Racine, and Boileau, Madame de Sevigne, Madame de la Fayette, and above all the philosopher-dramatist Moliere, who so memorably exposed the vices and hypocrisies of the age.
Central to the book is the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Louis XIV ruled France for over seventy years, longer than almost any European ruler in history. He is the subject of a character study that runs through seven chapters, revealing the flesh and blood beneath the purple and the crown. He is seen at his worst in his struggle with Jansenists and Huguenots, at his best in his patronage of literature and art, and at his most human in his love affairs with Henrietta Anne of Orleans, Louise de La Valliere, Madame de Montespan, and Madame de Maintenon.
From France the narrative passes to the Netherlands, and after pausing to examine the domestic idylls of Vermeer, shows the Dutch opening their dikes to save their land from Louis XIV and sending William of Orange to become king of England and a leader of the European alliance against Louis hegemony.
In England we contemplate the heyday of virtue under the Puritans and study the strange character of Cromwell. We see Milton s passionate career as part of the vain effort to prevent the Stuart Restoration. We find Charles II, the Merry Monarch, with more manners than morals, attend boisterous Restoration plays; we skim the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; and we follow Jonathan Swift from genius to insanity.
Crossing the North Sea we trace the tragic heroism of Charles XII of Sweden and the attempt of Peter the Great to lead Russia from barbarism to civilization. We accompany the noble Sobieski of Poland as he rescues Vienna from the Turks. We visit Italy and Spain. We see the Jews proscribed and impoverished in Europe but rising to riches in Amsterdam and following Sabbatai Zevi in a desperate hope of regaining Palestine and freedom.
All this forms the background for the intellectual adventure of the European mind in its passage from superstition, mythology, and intolerance to education, science, and philosophy, for this was the age when Newton and Leibniz gave simultaneous birth to calculus, when Newton bound the planets and the stars with a chain of universal gravitation. Toward the end of the volume the authors revert to their favorite subject, philosophy, and devote a full chapter, with love and care, to Spinoza.
The book ends with the sunset of Le Roi Soleil: Louis punished for his aggressions by a swarm of enemies gathering around him; fighting till his people are destitute and disillusioned, till his treasury and his heart are empty; dying defeated and repentant, begging his grandson and successor not to imitate his taste for splendor and war; and followed in his funeral by the insults of the crowd."
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Publishing year: 1986
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Book author: will ariel durant, wil durant, jung
Book title: spinoza, pascal, moliere, peter great, peter period, civilization volumes, durant, european civilization, history, loui xiv, erinnerungen träume gedanken von jung, cromwell milton, the story civilization volume the age louis xiv, europ, 1648 and european, the story civilization part
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