Showing posts with label Denmark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denmark. Show all posts
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Who was Johann Struensee?
Enlightened
absolutism, an idea where the ideas of the Enlightenment championed and
implemented by monarchies ruling through divine right, spread across Europe in
the 18th century. From Russia to Spain, monarchies called for rule of law,
reason, and liberalism. Denmark on the other hand experienced absolute
absolutism under a strange circumstances. Reforms aligned to the Enlightenment
movement befell Denmark under the hands of a foreign German doctor named Johann
Struensee. Friday, January 20, 2017
Monday, January 16, 2017
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