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Absolutism


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Monarchical form of government, in which power and ruling rights are concentrated in the hands of the prince. The nobility became a court aristocracy without any political autonomy, and the Estates were weakened by the establishment of centralized administrative machinery. In the Baroque, an imposing culture of court and ecclesiastical pomp generated a dynamic of self-legitimization. However, absolute rule in its fullest extent was hardly ever realized.

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