What were the main difficulties in creating and maintaining an absolute government?

Question

a) Monarchs found that extending royal authority angered their nobles and clergy, and attempting to tax primitive economies was inefficient and angered merchants and tradesmen.
b) Monarchs discovered that the poor education of their elites, noble or not, made it difficult to assign even the simplest governmental tasks.
Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core.
c) The clergy, claiming that a crown’s attempt to centralize was an assault on God’s order for the world, threw up roadblock after roadblock to royal reforms.
Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core.
d) There were actually very few difficulties, since nobles were happier to hunt and party than to govern their own provinces.
Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core.

Answer 1

a) Monarchs found that extending royal authority angered their nobles and clergy, and attempting to tax primitive economies was inefficient and angered merchants and tradesmen.