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

by Nicholas Henshall

Book Overview

Conventionally, "absolutism" in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of "absolutism" in action xxx; continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England xxx; dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138180505
• ISBN13: 9781138180505
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"