The Secret Democracies of the Late Middle Ages

There is only one really good example of that. It's a Hungarian guy named John Hunyadi who starts off as kind of a minor like border noble and through by hook and by crook in a context of instability within the kingdom of Hungary manages to work his way up to the point where he's the region and his son Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary. But so he doesn't get to do it. He's dead by that point, but Hungarian monarchy was elective. And I think it's a misconception, even like early modern politics, when you hit the height of actual absolutism, you still have people who have to buy in,. Like you still