Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

The Age of Absolutism also gave birth to the first modern theories of government. What did they have in common? What made them “modern?” How did the theories of each of the three men (Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau) differ? Once you know the answers to these questions, which this podcast episode will help you with, you will have unlocked the key to writing well another 50 to 75 words in your 500-word review of the Age of Absolutism.

In this vignette of the life of Louis XIV, you will listen to contact that will serve as the source material for your topics to write your 500-word “Personification” essay. How did Louis personify the Age of Absolutism. This podcast contains topics that are excellent for such an analysis. Choose one and show how. The podcast speaks of Hyacnith Rigauld’s portrait of Louis XIV, the palace of Versailles and El Cid, by Pierre Corneille, among other things. Here are images that show these three subjects.