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Author | : André Thevet |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271090715 |
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Available for the first time in English, these thirteen selections from André Thevet’s Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. Originally published in 1584, Thevet’s collection contains over two hundred biographical sketches, detailing the lives of important persons from antiquity to the sixteenth century. Edward Benson and Roger Schlesinger have translated and annotated Thevet’s portraits of his contemporaries, and divided them into three categories: monarchs, aristocrats, and scholars. Additionally, an extensive introduction places the work in context and describes the critical attention that Thevet and his writings have received. Together these portraits provide a history of sixteenth-century France as the country underwent tremendous change: from an intellectual renaissance and its first encounter with the New World to the Protestant Reformation and the Wars of Religion that followed. France was irrevocably altered by these events and Thevet’s account of the lives of individuals who struggled with them is indispensable.
Author | : Stuart Carroll |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1998-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521624046 |
Download Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion and the first substantial study of the Guise - the most powerful family of the period - to appear for over a century. The Guise, champions of the catholic cause, were the largest landowners in the province and used Normandy as a base for their support of catholicism in the British Isles. The family exploited religious dissension to build a formidable ultra-catholic party in Normandy which ultimately challenged the monarchy. This study breaks new ground by illuminating the relationship between high politics and popular confessional solidarities, especially the rise of radical catholicism. It exploits new archival sources to consider all groups in political society, reinterpreting court politics and discussing groups usually excluded from the traditional political narrative, such as the peasantry.
Author | : Mack P. Holt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1995-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521358736 |
Download The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new look at the French wars of religion, designed for undergraduate students and general readers.
Author | : Robert Jean Knecht |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472810139 |
Download The French Religious Wars 1562–1598 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The eight French Wars of Religion began in 1562 and lasted for 36 years. Although the wars were fought between Catholics and Protestants, this books draws out in full the equally important struggle for power between the king and the leading nobles, and the rivalry between the nobles themselves as they vied for control of the king. In a time when human life counted for little, the destruction reached its height in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre when up to 10,000 Protestants lost their lives.
Author | : Mack P. Holt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2005-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139447676 |
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This book is a 2005 edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the socio-economic tensions of the period to produce a long extended civil war. Professor Holt integrates court politics and the political theory of the elites with the religious experiences of the popular classes, offering a fresh perspective on the wars and on why the French were willing to kill their neighbors in the name of religion. The book has been created specifically for undergraduates and general readers with no background knowledge of either French history or the Reformation. This edition updates the text in the light of new work published in the decade prior to publication and the 'Suggestions for further reading' has been completely re-written.
Author | : Oxford University Press |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199809291 |
Download The Reformation and Wars of Religion in France: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Author | : Janine Garrisson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 1995-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349240206 |
Download A History of Sixteenth Century France, 1483-1598 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A masterful new survey of sixteenth-century France which examines the vicissitudes of the French monarchy during the Italian Wars and the Wars of Religion. It explores how the advances made under a succession of strong kings from Charles VIII to Henri II created tensions in traditional society which combined with economic problems and emerging religious divisions to bring the kingdom close to disintegration under a series of weak kings from Francois II to Henri III. The political crisis culminated in France's first succession conflict for centuries, but was resolved through Henri IV's timely reconnection of dynastic legitimism with religious orthodoxy.
Author | : Jasper Cornelis van Putten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004353968 |
Download Networked Nation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia', Jasper van Putten examines the creation of the city views in this cosmography, considering the evolution of German and Swiss identity over the period of the Cosmographia’s publication (1544–1628).
Author | : Wikipedia contributors |
Publisher | : e-artnow sro |
Total Pages | : 2501 |
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Author | : Ramie Targoff |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374713847 |
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A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.