Not as absolute as modern absolute jacobin democracy.
What does it mean for a country to be an absolute monarchy, and how powerful were absolute monarchies really? In this video, we’re going to cover the history of absolute monarchy in Europe throughout the age of absolutism, which stretched between the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and the French Revolution in 1789. This will include the origins of absolute monarchies, as well as dispelling some of the misconceptions regarding what it meant for a country to be an absolute monarchy. In addition we will also explore the philosophical reasoning that absolute monarchies rested on. The video will then end with covering the rise of enlightenment despotism, and how it interplayed with the fall of absolute monarchy in the late eighteenth century.
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