Schedule

Week Topic
1

i. The theme of monarchy and divine/sacred kingship
ii. Early Mesopotamian kingship
2

i. Bureaucratic and majestic monarchy in ancient Egypt
ii. Hammurabi’s code of laws (c. 1780 B.C.E.)
iii. The monarchy of the Hebrew people
3

i. Ancient constitutional monarchy: Julius Caesar and Augustus
ii. Imperial state and imperial church in the Roman Empire East and West
4

i. Medieval monarchs and the formation of nations - Carolingian Empire
5

i. Constitutional developments: Bill of Rights (1689)
ii. The 18th century Enlightenment
iii. Autocracy in Czarist Russia
iv. Monarchic grandeur: Louis XIV
6 i. Napoleon’s monocracy
ii. 19th-century constitutional and imperial monarchies: Spain, Britain
7 i. The crisis of the dynasties: World War I
ii. The survival of monarchy into the modern world
Copyright ©2008 Aidan Breen, Ph.D.
Citation: Breen, A. (2008, July 29). Schedule. Retrieved November 06, 2014, from UMass Boston OpenCourseware Web site: http://ocw.umb.edu/history/monarchs-people-and-history/schedule.
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