Enlightenment: The Age Of Enlightenment And The Enlightenment
At this time absolutism was the new form of government brought on by the religious and civil wars of the previous centuries. Louis XIV was the perfect icon for an absolute monarch as he established a centralized government and national bureaucracy and gave supremacy to the Catholic Church. The continuing confrontation between Catholics and Protestants brought the domination of the later new recognized national religion and lack of freedom of citizens due to the strong centralized government which began the rise of one of the most important movements in