absolutist state

Beginning in the 15th century, this centralizing process gives rise to the absolutist state.

Their aim was to replace the absolutist state structures which had become outdated.

Perhaps most important was the lateness of development of the absolutist state.

Peter reorganized his government based on the latest political models of the time, moulding Russia into an absolutist state.

When Chulalongkorn came of age in 1873 he and his western educated brothers were intent on creating a modern absolutist state.

In 1660, Denmark became an absolutist state and the power of the Althing was diminished significantly.

Thus confessionalization is often described as a development stage towards the centralised absolutist state of the 18th century and the modern welfare state.

Despite this, the Court did not rule specifically on whether the preclusion sanction was appropriate, instead applying the constitutional standard for an absolutist state law.

These changes would allow Leopold to initiate necessary political and institutional reforms during his reign to develop somewhat of an absolutist state along French lines.

Lineages of the Absolutist State.

He approaches matters of principle offhandedly, as if to remind the reader how indelicately principles are adduced in an absolutist state.

The feudal nobility and mercantile bourgeoisie were integrated into the absolutist state mainly by the purchase of offices in the public apparatus of the state.

The absolutist state was necessary to maintain control of a peasantry freed from the politico-legal coercion of feudalism by the commutation of dues into money rents.

Perry Anderson has shown that the importance of bureaucracy in the absolutist state was that it was part of the state apparatus for a new kind of feudal domination.

Shortly before 1700, he visited Louis XIV of France at the Palace of Versailles and planned to make an absolutist state out of Württemberg.

Similarly, Rocker gives Protestant Reformation the credit of having liberated the individual from the Catholic Church, but accuses it of having subdued it under the absolutist state.

For example, the Russian empire in 1917 was largely a peasant society composed of many different nationalities and governed by an absolutist state headed by the Czar; popular democracy did not exist.

With this reform Joseph II in effect incorporated the municipal administration into the centralised system of an absolutist state, thereby successfully preventing the citizens of Vienna from attaining political independence.

The significance of the parterre for Ravel is how it functioned as a critical segment of public opinion in an absolutist state, eventually becoming a symbol of political culture in France.

Her advisor Johann Jakob Schmitz tried to implement his own ideal of an enlightened absolutist state, and frequently collided with the rights of the chapter, the estates, or the city.

Although the authorities prevailed in this Swiss peasant war, they did pass some tax reforms and the incident in the long term prevented creation of an absolutist state, unlike many of the other states of Europe.

It may be tempting to greet "Marie Antoinette" with a Jacobin snarl or a self-righteous sneer, since it is after all the story of the silly teenager who embodied a corrupt, absolutist state in its terminal decadence.

He published two major volumes of analytical history in 1974: Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism focuses on the creation and endurance of feudal social formations, while Lineages of the Absolutist State examines monarchical absolutism.

A good example is Anderson's study of the absolutist state in Europe, where it is observed that there is no 'uniform temporal medium: for the times of the major Absolutisms of Europe - Eastern and Western - were, precisely, enormously diverse.

When things had settled down, the Rigsraad (High Council) of Denmark became weakened, and finally abolished in 1660 when Denmark-Norway became an absolutist state and Denmark a hereditary monarchy, as Norway had been since the Middle Ages.