Absolute Monarchy - How Absolute were they Really?
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2020
- 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.
If you liked this absolute monarchy documentary, don’t forget to check out my other videos at / @quillinkhistory9539
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Sources
Absolutism in central Europe(Peter H Wilson. 2000).
“What is absolutism?” by G. Durand. Second chapter in the anthology Louis XIV and Absolutism(1976).
The Enlightenment(Dorinda Outram. 2013).
Global Economic History, a very short introduction.(Robert C. Allen. 2011).
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Well, Napoleon made a constitution, where it gave the monarchy absolute power.
The result of the Revolution was dethroning the Ancien Regime, where the King didn't have much power to create effective reforms. Due to push back from the nobles in reaction to the Sun King's absolutism, with a constitutional absolute monarchy.
Ironic!
Constitutional absolute monarchy? Never knew it existed.
Im not familiare with the French constitution under Napoleon. Can you send me a link to it?
@@htoodoh5770 Yeah, at first glance it seems somewhat contradictory, as most people think of constitutionalism and absolutism as opposites, but this is not the whole of it. Basically, it's just a constitution that enshrines the absolute power of the monarchy within itself, thus, allowing the monarch to hold consolidate more power than before.
@@quillinkhistory9539 I've personally read it before, but I don't have a link to it, I might find a link to it in a few days/weeks. Though, can you speak French, if you can, it might speed things along for me, and subsequently, for you? It's called the Constitution of the year XII (1804), it basically gives the Emperor absolute authority in all matters of the state. Whilst also establishing many of the positions under him, for example, the Senat Consevateur.
Here are two Wikipedia pages for it, which give the basic synopsis for it, I hope they can help you, and your amazing channel.
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Year_XII#Title_IV._Of_the_Regency.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Year_XII#:~:text=Constitution%20of%20the%20Year%20XII%20(1804).&text=It%20amended%20the%20earlier%20Constitution,I%2C%20Emperor%20of%20the%20French.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9nat_conservateur
I hope that all of this aids your great channel and your fantastically done videos, if you only wanted the synopsis, and broad overview of it, please do tell me.
@@tntsummers926 Sorry for a late answere. I can't speak French I'm afraid, but I will check out the links you sent.
"I Am the Senate" is a line that is popularly thought of as "bad dialogue" only now popular because it's been Memed endlessly. Because those people didn't understand the concept being referenced.
Louis XIV actually said: "I go now, but the state remain forever". Interesting...
That’s almost the exact opposite of “I am the State”.
Absolutist Monarchy is best ideology
Nah, constitutional monarchy is better
@@quillinkhistory9539 no way! That's gross! I believe it's Absolute Monarchy under aristocratic oligarchy and corrupt businesspeople.
@@eliasbairamis6069 King George III disagrees
@@quillinkhistory9539 First of all I respect King George III but myself's a jacobite, so I disagree with him.
@@eliasbairamis6069 in todays World absolute hereditary monarchy with aristocracy in the form of bosses of corporations, priests militarny and democratically elected representatives of the people and would be good
This is probably the best discussion of what Absolutism actually is, I have seen on the internet, Thank you!
Have an Absolutely glorious Christmas, Q&IH :)
Sadly I couldn’t and can’t right now get my video on constitutional monarchy up, still this is a great video I love long form content, this was a great Xmas present, and hopefully my video is as good as yours
You're great
I know :( I'm happy that you liked the video though and I´m looking forward to when you can make videos again :)
Quill & Ink History actually I’m finishing up a script now, should be out mid to late jan, it’s a pretty long one so far, it kinda leads into another video, once those two are done I’ll do my video on constitutional monarchy
Cool, what topic will it cover?
Quill & Ink History you’ll have to find out :P
7:00 Just for a bit of clarification, what was different about England's parliamentary system that allowed them to all agree on a land tax, instead of it leading to disagreement and pushback like you'd see in France? Additionally, at 10:10 What exactly about the Absolute Monarch's inability to oversee every little part of the government's business make it liable for corruption, is it because he can't he can't see every little thing that they slip under the radar, or the King's bias to choose favorites? Just minor clarifications I want to know.
Oh, this one is more for your opinion, how much do you think Thomas Hobbes' ideas of Absolutism effected Europe?
Sorry for a late reply. Have had my hands full with a big assignment that was handed in yesterday. Those are some interesting questions and I’m going to try to answer them as good as I can.
The reason England’s parliamentary system allowed them to establish a land tax was due to the country’s elite being able to have a say in how the country’s policy was formed. This allowed them to have a say in how the countries tax system was formed which gave a legitimazy to the land tax which likely would not have been there if the tax had been implemented over the elite’s heads.
Regarding your second question of the relationship between absolutism and corruption, the answer I found in the literature is a combination of both. Corruption was party due to the crown being unaware of all the details of how the state administrators operated, and the king also had favorites among the governments administration who didn’t always have the country’s best interest in mind.
The impact Thomas Hobbes have had on Europe is hard to determine. Hobbes, though well read, was never a popular philosophers in early modern Europe and I never heard of anyone who openly have subscribed to his political philosophy.
Fun fact, European constitutionalists often labeled their absolutists counterparts as Hobbsian’s as a slur. However, I do believe his ideas on absolutism, specially his idea of the state of nature and the social contract, have had significant influence on later European political philosophy. Some examples of philosophers who picked up his ideas are Rousseau and Samuel Pufendorf. Outside of that though, I’m not sure.
@@quillinkhistory9539 Thanks for replying,, I just wanted that clarified and I'm glad you did.
Have a merry and absolut christmas Q&I :)
Great video❤
Constitutional monarchies don’t afford their Kings sufficient enough power for my liking, it’s why I prefer the semi-constitutional system. Absolutism rose out of the breakdown in feudalism where a fundamental tension between the King and the Nobles or other estates created an impasse which required the King to circumvent them.
Are you from Sweden?
That's right :)
@@quillinkhistory9539 I instantly recognized it on how you pronounce certain words, lol. Awesome, I really like Swedes.
3 big waves of lies made the dronwing situation we have today.
What are you talking about?
@@quillinkhistory9539 Nothing that can be explained with a RUclips comment, but what i mean is the protestantisms revolts, the iluminism (french revolution), the revolucionary marxist ideologies based on identities made on the totalitarian regimes of the sec XX.
@@pedrogabriel3448 protestantism is what?
@@pedrogabriel3448 Do you think that Luther at the beginning wanted just reform the Church or his ideas were bad from the start?
@@silesiaball9505Sincerelly it doesn't matter what anybody thinks, it doesn't matter what Luther wanted. Matters only what happened and what was done with it. You can see more on the book "The March of Folly" By Barbara W. Tuchman.
The most interesting contradiction to me about the divine right era (when it came to England at least) is that Charles I was both Catholic and the head of a national church that was Protestant simultaneously.
That was Charles II, his son. Charles I was out and out Anglican, which ticked off the Puritans and would lead into the two Bishop Wars with Scotland when he tried to make the Anglican Church the main church of Scotland and the Presbyterian Scots wanted none of it. And Charles II was a secret Catholic, as he only declared his Catholicism on his death bed.
@@MrLeoni2 but he also had a Catholic wife ( something the radical puritans couldn't tolerate) and I also heard he was therefore sympathetic to them and didn't persecute them as he treated them as his subjects as well.
@@silesiaball9505 Yes, he did have a Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria, but, he stayed a lifelong Anglican. And this was because, like his father, James I, he was more a middle of the road, religious-wise, Protestant, than a Catholic or a radical Protestant, which was what the Church of England was during that time.
@@MrLeoni2 May I have another questions. Firstly, I also heard that Shakespeare was secretely a Catholic and it is possible to find a catholic ways of thinking in his plays. Have you heard about and if so may you present your opinion?
And secondly what is your opinion on "glorious" revolution?
@@silesiaball9505 Shakespeare a secret Catholic? News to me. As far as I know, he was a Protestant, especially as, if I'm right, his company was sponsered first by Liz i and then by James I. And, a lot of his writing could be considered pro-Tudor and then Pro-Stuart propaganda.
As for the Glorious Revolution, English and American political systems are the result of it, as none of it would exist if the English ruling (Potestant) classes didn't freak out upon the birth of James' son.
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