France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at
opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European
political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the
high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite
recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following
the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared
a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories
remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study
focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of
power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of
Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in
periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at
the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century
England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent
legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or
providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.
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