10 sentences with 'absolutism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word absolutism and other words derived from it.
• « These concepts - order and control - would go on to inspire the development of a new kind of political system in which kings would claim near-total authority: absolutism. »
• « The central idea of absolutism was that the king or queen was, firstly, the holder of (theoretically) absolute political power within the realm and, secondly, that all action by the monarch was to be taken in the name of preserving and guaranteeing the rights and privileges of his or her subjects, including occasionally even the peasants. »
• « Its version of absolutism, centred on the authority of the king, the rights of the nobles and an overwhelming focus on the military, proved effective in transforming it from a backwater into Austria's only serious rival for dominance in Central Europe. »
• « Along with that change came the growth of a new type of state and society, one not only defined by the growth of the bureaucracy seen in absolutism, but in the power of the moneyed classes whose wealth was not based on land ownership. »
• « As a constitutional monarchy, Britain was a major exception to the continental pattern of absolutism. »
• « As noted in the absolutism debate, the Prussian royal line, the Hohenzollerns, oversaw Prussia's transformation from a poor, backward collection of lands in northern Germania into a military great power, essentially putting all state expenditure into the pursuit of military perfection. »
• « In the 1650s, Sweden ruled Denmark, Norway, Finland and the Baltic region. King Charles XI (r. 1660 - 1697) successfully imitated the absolutism of Louis XIV by pitting the lesser nobles against the greater nobles, forcing the nobles to serve him directly. »
• « Louis XVI reluctantly agreed to revive France's old representative assembly, the Estates General, in the hope of persuading that body to provide more revenue. For the first time in the history of French absolutism, a king had to formally negotiate with his subjects to avoid bankruptcy. »
• « The storming of the Bastille: On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, the royal prison and symbol of absolutism, was stormed by a thousand armed Parisians. »