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A Universal Monarchy is a concept and a political situation where one monarchy is deemed to have either sole rule over everywhere (or at least the predominant part of a geopolitical area or areas) or to have a special supremacy over all other states (or at least all the states in a geopolitical area or areas). ==Concept== Universal Monarchy is differentiated from ordinary monarchy in that a Universal Monarchy is beholden to no other state and asserts a degree of total sovereignty over an area, or predominance over other states. The concept has arisen in Europe and Asia. The concept is linked to that of Empire, but implies more than simply possessing ''imperium''. The Latin phrase ''Dominus Mundi'', Lord of the World, encapsulates the concept. Though in practice no Universal Monarchy ever held rule over the whole world, it may have appeared to many people, particularly pre-modern, that it did. Critical of the concept in Europe in the Middle Ages were philosophers such as Nicole Oresme〔Mastnak, Tomaž ''Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order'' University of California Press (2002) p329〕 and Erasmus;〔Persson, Hans-Åke & Stråth, Bo ''Reflections on Europe: defining a political order in time and space'' Peter Lang (2007) pp51-52〕 whereas Dante and Guillaume Postel〔Kuntz, Marion Leathers ''Guillaume Postel, prophet of the restitution of all things: his life and thought'' Springer (1981) p171〕 were more favourable. Later, Protestants would seek to reject the concept, identifying it with Catholicism.〔Simms, Brendan & Riotte, Torsten (Editors) ''The Hanoverian dimension in British History, 1714-1837'' Cambridge University Press (2007) pp168-169〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Universal monarchy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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