composite monarchy

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词形变化

composite monarchies 复数 composite monarchies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures.

    历史 政治

    1995 [Routledge], Conrad Russell, Chapter 8: Composite monarchies in early modern Europe, Alexander Grant, Keith Stringer, Uniting the Kingdom?, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-library, page 133, All multiple kingdoms are composite monarchies, but not all composite monarchies are multiple kingdoms.

词源

Coined in 1975 by German-born British historian Helmut Koenigsberger and popularised by Sir John Huxtable Elliott.

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