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Jun 9, 2009 · Tweet. The term 'Absolutism' was coined in France in the 1790s, but the concept which described it was familiar to many Englishmen in the late seventeenth century. They talked of 'absolute monarchy', 'tyranny', 'despotism' and above all 'arbitrary government'. Their use of such terns were pejorative: they described political regimes of a type ...
Absolutism conspicuously appropriated religious form when expressed as a theory of obedience. For subjects, the insistent duty consequent on the absolute authority of sovereigns was absolute obedience, and its corollary, the utter illegitimacy of rebellion. Non-resistance was a logical entailment of sovereignty.
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Summary. 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
Chapter 8: Absolutism. “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. In other words, while the monarchs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries certainly knew they were doing something differently than had their ...
- Christopher Brooks
- 2020
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 ...
4.1: Absolutist States is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by LibreTexts. The biggest change occurring with the rise of absolutism was economic in nature; it signaled an end to feudalism and the early stages of what would become a capitalist system, where money and trade ….
History of Europe - Absolutism, Monarchies, Dynasties: Certain assumptions influenced the way in which the French state developed. The sovereign held power from God. He ruled in accordance with divine and natural justice and had an obligation to preserve the customary rights and liberties of his subjects. The diversity of laws and taxes meant that royal authority rested on a set of quasi ...
