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Myth of Absolutism
Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy
Introduction
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.
Recent Perspectives
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.
