1. Is the category of " enlightened absolutism " still useful for the scholar? 2. :" Enlightened despotism ", an eighteenth-century category, redirects at Wikipedia to Enlightened absolutism . 3. :Please see Enlightened absolutism with links to the various monarchs involved. 4. However, historians debate the actual implementation of enlightened absolutism . 5. Muskar XII is an actual ruler rather than a constitutional monarch ( see enlightened absolutism ). 6. Bethlen's rule was one of patriarchal enlightened absolutism . 7. In effect, the monarchs of enlightened absolutism strengthened their authority by improving the lives of their subjects. 8. And Napoleon's intellectual mentor, his justification, if you like, has to be Voltaire, the advocate of enlightened absolutism . 9. During the reign of Peter's daughter Elizaveta Petrovna the ideas of the Enlightened Absolutism found their way into Russia. 10. Exposing the limitations of eighteenth-century enlightened absolutism , the war dealt a blow to both the Church and the nobility.