General
Absolutism Theory
Documents on Absolutism
Documents in the Wars of Religion
Comparison Video
Aristocratic Life and Experience
France
Primary Sources
Documents on French Absolutism
French Absolutism
Bishop of Bousset – Divine Right of Kings
French Nobility
Social Life in the Ancien Regime
Accounts of Louis XIV – Two Witnesses
Jean Domain – Social Order and Absolutism
Portrait of Louis XIV
Documents of Versailles
Data on Intendants
Louis XIV to Intendants
Jesuit Relations in New France
Declaration of War Against France
Colbert – Memoirs
Documents of the War of Spanish Succession
Secondary Sources
Videos
Louis XIV
Food of Louis XIV
Rise and Fall of Louis XIV – Versailles
Palace of Versailles
Yale Absolutism
Berkeley Absolutism
Eastern Europe
Primary Sources
- Peter the Great Documents
- Peter the Great: Portrait
- Russia: Images of Buildings and Architecture
- Prussia: Primary Sources
- Prussia: Primary Images
- Hapsburgs: Documents and Resources
Secondary Sources
- Overview of Eastern European Powers
- Frederick William
- Iron Kingdom: Rise and Fall of Prussia
- Hapsbrugs and Rebellion
- Germany 1648 to Napoleon
Video
- Peter the Great – Merriman
- Berkeley – Other Absolutisms
- Peter the Great – AP Review
- Prussian Absolutism – AP Review
- Prussian Society
- Enigma of Prussia; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
England
Primary Sources
- Robert – Patrarchia
- James I – Divine Right of Kings
- Documents on Constitutionalism in England
- English Civil War Documents: Norfolk Case Study
- The Leveller’s Standard
- IMHS: Women during the Civil War
- Book of Common Prayer: Online Edition
- Yale Digital Collections: Books of the Restoration
- IMHS: British Bill of Rights
- Documents of the Jacobite Kings
- IMHS: Diary of John Evelyn on Restoration and Revolution
Secondary Sources
- Hobbes – Political Philosophy
- British Civil War and Commonwealth Project
- Documents in British History: Old Bailey Online
Video
- Open University: English Civil War
- AP Euro Review: Hobbes vs. Locke
- AP Euro Review: Absolutism v. Constitutionalism
- Documentary: English Civil War; Cromwell
- Lecture on the Glroius Revolution and its Consequences
- Yale – Constitutional Revolution and Civil War; Regicide and Republic; Restoration Era
Poland & Netherlands
Primary Sources
- Avalon Project: Charter of Dutch West India Comp
- Hugens: Dutch East India Comp
Secondary Sources
- History of Poland
- History of Baltic States
- History of the Ukraine
- Dutch Revolt and Republic
- Dutch Republic in 17th Cent
- Rijks Museum: Timeline of Dutch History
- LOC: Dutch in America
Video
- Merriman: Dutch and British Exceptionalism
- Sotheby’s: Dutch Golden Age
- British National Gallery: Dutch Golden Age Music and Painting