The Myth of Absolutism : Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0582056179
ISBN-13
9780582056176
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 21st, 1992
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 16.20 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
European historyEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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This text examines the early modern period and begins by focusing on France, examining the Valois and Bourbon monarchs and the modes of operation they employed. The second part of the text looks at early modern Europe, making the distinction between "absolute" and "limited" monarchs.
Conventionally, ``absolutism'''' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'''' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.
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