> Pretending that Europe wasn't in a perpetual blood bath since the end of the Pax Romana until 1815 shows a gross ignorance of basic facts.

This shows that your understanding of history is rooted in pop-culture, not reality.

What "revolutions" were there in France between the ascension of Hugh Capet and the European Wars of Religion? Through that whole period the Capetian Dynasty stayed in power. Or in Scandinavia -- from Christianization on the three kingdoms were shockingly stable. Even in the Holy Roman Empire -- none of the petty revolts, rebellions, or succession disputes came close to the magnitude of carnage wrought by the 30 Year's War. This we know both from demographic studies and the reports of contemporaries.