The Myth of Absolutism

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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.