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

Henshall, N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0582056187 ISBN 13 : 9780582056183

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1992

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

'This thoughtful, wide-ranging and often spikey book xxx; a valuable corrective to much that has been written on the period. It deserves wide attention.'

Journal of European Studies

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582056187
• ISBN 13: 9780582056183
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible