The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy - Couverture rigide

Henshall, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0582056179 ISBN 13 : 9780582056176

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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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Authored by Henshall, Nicholas

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582056179
• ISBN 13: 9780582056176
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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