The Myth of Absolutism : Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy - Nicholas Henshall

The Myth of Absolutism

Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy

By: Nicholas Henshall

Paperback | 21 September 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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.
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'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

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