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The myth of absolutism : change and continuity in early Modern Europe monarchy

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.

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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."@en

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  • "The Myth of absolutim : change and continuity in early modern european monarchy"
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  • "Myth of Absolutism, The Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy"@en
  • "The myth of absolutism change and continuity in early modern European monarchy"
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  • "Миф абсолютизма ; перемены и преемственность в развитии западноевропейской монархии раннего Нового времени"
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