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 Europe was governed.
- | Author: Nicholas Henshall
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Sep 21, 1992
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0582056179
- | ISBN-13: 9780582056176
