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Absolutism is a nineteenth-century term designed precisely to address the mismatch between doctrine and power. The intellectual resources of absolutism were far older than the Renaissance and Reformation.
“Absolutism” is a concept of political authority created by historians to describe a shift in the governments of the major monarchies of Europe in the early modern period.
- Christopher Brooks
- 2020
Download Free PDF. ‘Absolutism, History of’, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition) edited by James D. Wright (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 6-11. Cesare Cuttica. This article focuses on the highly contested but widely employed historiographical category ‘absolutism.’.
- Cesare Cuttica
I. Absolutism: Derived from the traditional assumption of power (e.g. heirs to the throne) and the belief in “divine right of kings” Louis XIV of France was the quintessential absolute monarch. Characteristics of western European absolutism. Sovereignty of a country was embodied in the person of the ruler.
The meaning of absolutism. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the main tenets of absolutist and royalist thinking in the seventeenth century. That century, we are often told, saw the making of absolutism, especially in France.
- J.P. Sommerville
- 1991
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Eastern absolutism was based on a powerful nobility, weak middle class, and an oppressed peasantry composed of serfs. In France, the nobility’s power had been limited, the middle-class was relatively strong, and peasants were generally free from serfdom.
