Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
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 youtube.com/channel/UCCkBMq5Kspo38-RopmroyPQ
Image credits
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl - wikipedia
Sammy pompon - wikipedia
Andrew Shiva / wikipedia
Music credits
Virtutes vortics, Lost time, Americana, BTS Prolog and Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I(red by Kevin Macleod), by Kevin Macleod.
Note: I try to use copyright-free images and stock footage at all times. However, if I have used any of your artwork or video content then please don't hesitate to contact me and I’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit. Mail: inkhistorycontact@gmail.com
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).
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 youtube.com/channel/UCCkBMq5Kspo38-RopmroyPQ
Image credits
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl - wikipedia
Sammy pompon - wikipedia
Andrew Shiva / wikipedia
Music credits
Virtutes vortics, Lost time, Americana, BTS Prolog and Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I(red by Kevin Macleod), by Kevin Macleod.
Note: I try to use copyright-free images and stock footage at all times. However, if I have used any of your artwork or video content then please don't hesitate to contact me and I’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit. Mail: inkhistorycontact@gmail.com
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).
