Monarchical Absolutism in Europe

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This paper identifies and discuss the trends that prepared the ground for monarchical absolutism in Europe and explains why absolutism found fertile ground in some nations and not others, specifically examining France, England and Russia.

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"The development of political ideologies helped to prepare to prepare the ground for monarchical absolutism. Theories of sovereignty were not proposed only by the French. Since the collapse of feudalism there was in Europe a greater emphasis on the role of the 'prince.' Numerous Renaissance writers and thinkers sought a means to bring stability in the conflict of post-feudal Europe. Writers such as Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Seyssel looked to the somewhat idealized notion of the 'prince' to bring order.13 While their ideas may not have been entirely realistic, what is clear is the direction that some thinking was taking, towards more progressive forms of government. In addition to these sorts of writers, "late medieval ideas, adapting the language of Roman law, had accepted that the crown should be absolute.""

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