Destroy The Castle The Historical Logic Of The Formation Of The Absolutist State

The absolutist state is a kind of political form of the transition from feudal society to capitalist society in Medieval Europe.And it's also the historical period of Europe's transition from decentralization to centralization of power.As a typical building in the feudal period of Europe,the castle was a symbol of the power fragmentation.Because of its unique social function in the feudal society,the castle strengthened the trend of decentralization of power.In fact,the castle became the center of local power,aggravated the situation of feudal separation,and it as the symbol of the dispersion of political authority.The absolutist state arose under the background of the serious economic,political,social and military crisis faced by the feudal society of Western Europe.Due to the limitation of productive force itself,the prolonged strike of famine and plague,the disturbance of wars,and the aggravation of social contradictions,the feudal society broke out the general crisis in the 14-15^thcentury.The absolutist state was gradually formed in what Perry Anderson called the"general crisis of feudal society".It weathered the crisis by putting an end to the political division and decentralization of feudal society,relegating local power to thrones and establishing a centralized central government.The period of absolutism set up a bridge from the Middle Ages to modern times in Western Europe.And the rise of the absolutist state was an important historical stage in the transition from feudal society to modern country in Western Europe.The reasons for the formation of absolutism are pluralistic.This article takes the decline of Western European castle as the breakthrough point,and analyzes the historical process of the formation of absolutism in Western Europe.The destruction of the castle was going hand in hand with the formation of the absolutist state.The important political factors for the rise of castles in Western Europe are the decentralization of power and the situation of multiple power centers in the feudal society,and the decline of the castle is inseparable from the centralization of centralization in the Late Medieval Western Europe.The precondition of the modern state construction in Western Europe is to centralize the power scattered in local areas,form absolute political authority and unified power center,and establish a unified political order and state.In the course of the formation of the absolute state,the standing army was established,the modern fiscal and taxation system and the specialized management system,and the statute law and the unified national market also took shape.The centralization of power disintegrated the political factors of the existence of the castle,and the formation of the absolute state,marked by the centralization of politics and power,became the forerunner of the modern national construction in Western Europe.