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Portrait of King Louis XIV, by Charles Le Brun, c. 1655. absolutism, Political doctrine and practice of unlimited, centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, especially as vested in a monarch. Its essence is that the ruling power is not subject to regular challenge or check by any judicial, legislative, religious, economic, or electoral ...
The idea of absolutism does indeed have a wider political application: the sovereignty of Parliament, for instance, is, in juridical terms, an absolute sovereignty recognising, as A. V. Dicey pointed out a century ago, no legal limitations. It is, however, in its application to absolute monarchy that the term has had its greatest historical ...
- J. H. Burns
- 1990
Abstract. 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. The absolutism of monarchs was a contingent and temporary corollary of the principal juridical development of the early modern ...
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of absolutism does indeed have a wider political application: the sovereignty of Parliament, for instance, is, in juridical terms, an absolute sovereignty recognising, as A. V. Dicey pointed out a century ago, no legal limitations. It is, however, in its application to absolute monarchy that the term has had its greatest historical
- J. H. Burns
- 1990
Search for: 'absolutism' in Oxford Reference ». A state-form typical of societies in the process of transition from feudalism to capitalism and in which power is concentrated in the person of a monarch, who has at his or her disposal a centralized administrative apparatus. Viewed thus, the label has been applied to a wide variety of states ...
The decline of aristocratic power in France created a vacuum that successive kings were only too happy to fill. Absolutism arose to fulfill a percieved need in French society for order at a time ...
The rise of absolutism in Europe must be understood in the context of insecurity attending the religious wars of the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Thirty Years’ War in particular. Faced with the unprecedented brutality and devastation of these conflicts, European nobles and landowners were increasingly willing to surrender ...
