Essay HIS

HIS 102 Week 6 Content

Absolute Monarches and the Englightened Public Sphere

Introduction: Europe developed powerful kings who claimed a divine right to rule, but it also developed critics of these monarchs and the critiques spawned a political, scientific, and cultural revolution of ideas with lasting implications.

Readings

Upshur

580-611

Envisioning World Civilizations

11.1 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, "The Theory of Divine Right"

11.6 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

11.7 The English Bill of Rights

11.11 Isaac Newton Using a Prism

11.12 Emmanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

11.13 Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women

11.14 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Selected Poems

Bonus:  Sometimes historians make mistakes.  Item 11.4 in your reader includes some major errors.  Anyone who emails Professor Haley at [email protected] with the subject line "King on a Horse" and explains in a paragraph or so what is wrong with this entry, will earn three extra credit points.  (This is not easy.)