Why did people want absolutism?
Behind this was the idea to reduce the effective power of the nobility by making them become reliant upon the munificence* of the monarch. Absolute monarchies often gave birth to ideologies that eloquently justified the power exercised by the absolutist monarch.
Behind this was the idea to reduce the effective power of the nobility by making them become reliant upon the munificence* of the monarch. Absolute monarchies often gave birth to ideologies that eloquently justified the power exercised by the absolutist monarch.
