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Absolutism or the Age of Absolutism (c. 1610 – c. 1789) is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites. [1]
England developed a powerful feudal monarchy at an earlier stage compared to France, allowing it to undertake ambitious military campaigns like the Hundred Years' War. However, unlike absolutist monarchies on the European continent, the English monarchy lacked the resources and motivation to build and maintain a large permanent standing army.
Absolutism (European history), period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe) Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch rules free of laws or legally organized opposition; Autocracy, a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power
The sociedad de la España moderna ("society of modern Spain" in the sense of the Modern Age or Ancien Régime) was a network of communities of diverse nature, to which individuals were attached by bonds of belonging: territorial communities in the style of the house or the village; intermediate communities such as the manor and the cities and their land (alfoz or comunidad de villa y tierra ...
Early signs of the rebirth of civilization in western Europe began to appear in the 11th century as trade started again in Italy, leading to the economic and cultural growth of independent city-states such as Venice and Florence; at the same time, nation-states began to take form in places such as France, England, Spain, and Portugal, although ...
On April 7, 1823, the so-called "Army of Spain" began crossing the Spanish border without a prior declaration of war. [179] [180] Initially numbering between 80,000 and 90,000 men, their number rose to around 120,000 by the end of the campaign, with some having already participated in Napoleon's invasion of 1808.
Much of the older historiography, as represented by The Cambridge History of the British Empire, covers the detailed month-to-month operations of the Imperial bureaucracy. More recent scholarship has examined who the bureaucrats and governors were, as well as the role of the colonial experience on their own lives and families.
[102] [103] It amounted to an acknowledgement by Spain that its hopes of restoring Roman Catholicism in England were at an end and it had to recognise the Protestant monarchy in England. In return, England ended its financial and military support for the Dutch rebellion, ongoing since the Treaty of Nonsuch (1585), and had to end its wartime ...