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Compare And Contrast Absolutism In 16th And 17th Century Europe

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Absolutism during the 16th and 17th century in Europe would be in both cases a time of prosperity and tyranny, it depends on how you look at it and who and where you where from back in time. Absolutism is the ideology that the king has total power over everything in the country he/she rules over. Back in the 16th and 17th century it was a period where there were kings and queens ruling a country and each one would have been a fair and just ruler, or they could have been a unfair and unjust ruler. Most of the monarchs at the time were cruel, greedy, and unfair, most believed that they had been picked or chosen by god that they had the divine right to rule over the land which gave then justification to do what ever they wanted (stated in Document 2 : source King James of England). …show more content…

(Document 3 source : king Luis XIV of France) he stated that only the head is able to carry out with decisions and that they will decide what is best for the state, by stating that he is saying that he has all the power and he could do what ever he wants to because he is the king and he has the right to. That monarchs would abuse their power and say that they have the right to do so based on the ideology that they have been chosen by god him self, they excessively use their power for their own interests. (Document 5 source : Bishop Jacques Bossuet) states that if the kings have been given power to rule by god himself that they should rear and tremble when they use the power that has been given by god, and especially if that power would be used for

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