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Ch. 15 State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Explore the rise of absolutism and divine-right monarchy in the 17th century, as well as the key terms, such as intendants, parlements, boyars, Procurator, Janissaries, gentry, Mannerism, and Baroque, that shaped this period of state-building and the quest for order.

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Ch. 15 State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

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  1. Ch. 15 State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century KEY TERMS

  2. absolutism (p. 440) • Form of government in which the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by divine right and was therefore responsible only to God.

  3. divine-right monarchy (p. 440) • A monarchy based on the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God.

  4. intendants (p. 441) • Royal officials in the seventeenth-century France who were sent into the provinces to execute the orders of the central government.

  5. parlements (p. 443) • Provincial law courts in France.

  6. boyars (p. 450) • The Russian nobility.

  7. procurator (p. 450) • The head of the Holy Synod, the chief decision-making body for the Russian Orthodox Church.

  8. Janissaries (p. 454) • An elite core of eight thousand troops personally loyal to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

  9. gentry (p. 458) • Well-to-do English landowners below the level of the nobility. They played an important role in the English Civil War of the seventeenth century.

  10. Mannerism (p. 464) • A sixteenth-century artistic movement in Europe that deliberately broke down the High Renaissance principles of balance, harmony, and moderation.

  11. Baroque (p. 464) • An artistic movement of the seventeenth century in Europe that used dramatic effects to arouse the emotions and reflected the search for power that was a large part of the seventeenth-century ethos.

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