Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6149-0 (ISBN)
Robert Jean Knecht is Emeritus Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham. A former Chairman of the Society of Renaissance Studies and of the Society for the Study of French History, he is the author of several works on sixteenth and seventeenth century France, including, Richelieu (1991), Renaissance Warrior and Patron: the Reign of Francis I (1994), Catherine de’ Medici (1998), The French Civil Wars (2000), The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France (revised edn. 2001), The Valois (2004), The French Renaissance Court (London & New Haven, 2008) and Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89 (Ashgate, 2014).
Contents: Introduction; The Concordat of 1516: a re-assessment; ‘Our Trinity!’: Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d’Angoulême; The Field of Cloth of Gold; The court of Francis I; Popular theatre and the court of 16th-century France; Francis I, ‘father of letters’?; Francis I and the ‘mirror for princes’; The early Reformation in England and France: a comparison; Francis I, ‘Defender of the Faith’?; Francis I and Paris; Charles III of Bourbon, Henri VIII and Charles V; Francis I in Aquitaine: a British view; Francis I and the Lit de justice: a ‘legend’ defended; Francis I and Fontainebleau; Haulse ( Paris) haulse bien hault ta porte’: the entry of the Emperor Charles V into Paris, 1540; The French and English nobilities in the 16th century: a comparison; The sword and the pen: Blaise de Monluc and his Commentaires; Index.
Reihe/Serie | Variorum Collected Studies |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 725 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4724-6149-5 / 1472461495 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-6149-0 / 9781472461490 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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