Chapter 16 Review: Important Events
1642–1646 | English civil war between Charles I and Parliament |
1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War; Fronde revolt challenges royal authority in France; Ukrainian Cossack warriors rebel against king of Poland-Lithuania; Spain formally recognizes independence of Dutch Republic |
1649 | Charles I of England executed; new Russian legal code assigns all to hereditary class |
1651 | Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan |
1660 | Monarchy restored in England |
1661 | Slave code set up in Barbados |
1667 | Louis XIV begins first of many wars that continue throughout his reign |
1678 | Madame de Lafayette anonymously publishes The Princess of Clèves |
1683 | Austrian Habsburgs break Turkish siege of Vienna |
1685 | Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes |
1688 | Parliament deposes James II; William, prince of Orange, and Mary take the throne |
1690 | John Locke publishes Two Treatises of Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
Consider three events: Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan (1651), Madame de Lafayette anonymously publishes The Princess of Clèves (1678), and John Locke publishes Two Treatises of Government (1690). How did Hobbes’s new doctrine of absolute political authority, de Lafayette’s novel, and Locke’s emphasis on a social contract represent both an effort to create order and a challenge to the established order?