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Jun 19, 2020 · xv, 247 pages : 22 cm. "This collection of documents with commentary explores the meaning of absolute monarchy by examining how Louis XIV of France became one of Europe's most famous and successful rulers. In the introduction, William Beik integrates the theoretical and practical nature of absolutism and its implications for the development of ...
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.
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J.P. Sommerville. Edited by. J. H. Burns. With. Mark Goldie. Chapter. Get access. Cite. 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
‘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
The period covered by this book— roughly 1650 to 1789—is one which historians of European history have labeled the age of become the protesting power against control by the Roman Catholic Church, its popes, and other Catholic rulers. While 17th- and 18th-century leaders ruled by Absolutism, Absolutism.
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 central idea behind absolutism was that the king or queen was, first, the holder of (theoretically) absolute political power within the kingdom, and second, that the monarch’s every action should be in the name of preserving and guaranteeing the rights and privileges of his or her subjects, occasionally even including the peasants.
