The Protestant/Catholic divide was settled, for a time, by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, and parliament was not yet strong enough to challenge royal absolutism.

Although the monarchy was restored, it ensured (with the Glorious Revolution of 1688) that, unlike much of the rest of Europe, royal absolutism would not prevail.

After 1532, Brittany retained a certain fiscal and regulatory autonomy, which was defended by the Estates of Brittany despite the rising tide of royal absolutism.

Confucianism was well suited to the administration of territory and the buttressing of central authority (that is, royal absolutism).

Based on Fénelon's novel Télémaque, it contains a criticism of royal absolutism, recommending instead that the king should follow a policy of enlightened paternalism.

We are the heirs of the Magna Carta by which the free men of England began to break the arbitrary and unchecked power of royal absolutism.

The tendency to royal absolutism was halted by the English revolution of the seventeenth century which reflected the dynamism of civil society and firmly established its pre-eminence.

Louis XIV's vast château, with its extravagant ceilings, hall of mirrors and formal gardens, is an ode to royal absolutism.

Moreover, Christian III's rule, ushered in by this war, saw the rise of royal absolutism in Denmark, and, with it, greater repression of the peasant classes.

French influence revived after the coup d'état of 19 August 1772 by which Gustavus III, a protégé of France, restored royal absolutism.