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Author : Robert Jean Knecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Francis I and Absolute Monarchy written by Robert Jean Knecht and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Jean Knecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781001223919
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Francis I written by Robert Jean Knecht and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis I, king of France from 1515 to 1547, has not always been treated by posterity with the seriousness he deserves. The French historian Jules Michelet (b. 1798?d. 1874), who has exerted a long-standing influence on popular notions of the past among his countrymen, dismissed him as a?fine talker? who allowed himself to be ruled by women, principally his mother and sister. As a child of the French Revolution, Michelet despised Francis for not having assumed leadership of the Protestant revolt against the Roman Catholic Church. Francis has also been largely eclipsed by the brilliance of the Sun King, Louis XIV. But all this has now changed. Since the 1950s there has been a revival of interest in the Renaissance and the Reformation. Francis was a central figure in both. As king, he laid the foundations of the?absolute? monarchy that was to flourish in the next century under Louis XIV. Though not entirely successful in his long struggle with the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, Francis successfully resisted his claim to the duchy of Burgundy, which, if conceded, would have dismantled the kingdom of France. Faced by the challenge of the Protestant Reformation that shattered the religious unity of his kingdom, Francis took the fateful decision to uphold the Catholic faith. He also supported some of the earliest French expeditions to the New World. On the cultural level, his legacy was second to none. Presiding over the most magnificent court north of the Alps, in which women assumed a more significant presence than in the past, he built numerous châteaus, patronized some of the most illustrious artists of his day, built up a superb library, and paved the way for the prestigious Collège de France in Paris?not a bad record for a ruler once dismissed as a lightweight.
Author : J. Russell Major
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856310
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy written by J. Russell Major and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans (classics, U. of British Columbia) examines the history of the great emperor, whose reign marks the transition between Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, including what is presently known about his life, the social structure of the empire, its relations with its neighbors, and naturally, its wars. It also examines theological issues, which split the empire and left deep divisions after Justinian's death. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : R. J. Knecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278874
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Francis I written by R. J. Knecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. J. Knect investigates the reign of Francis I of France.
Author : Cesare Cuttica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732224X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe written by Cesare Cuttica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author : R. J. Knecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578851
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Warrior and Patron written by R. J. Knecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback of Knecht's comprehensive account of one of France's most important monarchs.
Author : Nicholas Henshall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899547
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Absolutism written by Nicholas Henshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventionally, ``absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.
Author : Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300065329
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution written by Glenn Burgess and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-accepted standard view is that the gradual polarization of Court and Parliament during the reigns of James I and Charles I reflected the split between absolutists (who upheld the divine right of the monarchy to rule) and constitutionalists (who resisted tyranny by insisting the monarch was subject to law) and resulted inevitably in civil war.
Author : Tyler Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139918947
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The First French Reformation written by Tyler Lange and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political culture of absolute monarchy that structured French society into the eighteenth century is generally believed to have emerged late in the sixteenth century. This new interpretation of the origins of French absolutism, however, connects the fifteenth-century conciliar reform movement in the Catholic Church to the practice of absolutism by demonstrating that the monarchy appropriated political models derived from canon law. Tyler Lange reveals how the reform of the Church offered a crucial motive and pretext for a definitive shift in the practice and conception of monarchy, and explains how this first French Reformation enabled Francis I and subsequent monarchs to use the Gallican Church as a useful deposit of funds and judicial power. In so doing, the book identifies the theoretical origins of later absolutism and the structural reasons for the failure of French Protestantism.
Author : Geoffrey Treasure
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980590
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Mazarin written by Geoffrey Treasure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mazarin was the model statesman of the early modern period in French history. This book follows his career from pupil of the Jesuits, through legate in Paris and Avignon, to service for Louis XIII and beyond. Mazarin's role in the survival of absolute monarchy during the upheavals of the Fronde and his guidance of the young Louis XIV are given full weight. His crucial part in many diplomatic exchanges, and in particular those which brought an end to the Thirty Years War and the Franco-Spanish War, is examined in detail. His life is placed in the context of a study of the times, highlighting the rapidly changing nature of government.
Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812978846
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Absolute Monarchs written by John Julius Norwich and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat; Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun; the infamous “pornocracy”—the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Rome’s most powerful families; Pope Paul III, “the greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,” who reinterpreted the Church’s teaching and discipline; John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 instituted reforms that led to Vatican II; and Benedict XVI, who is coping with today’s global priest sex scandal. Epic and compelling, Absolute Monarchs is an enthralling history from “an enchanting and satisfying raconteur” (The Washington Post).
Author : Robert Jean Knecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Francis 1 written by Robert Jean Knecht and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Potter
Publisher : Palgrave
ISBN 13 : 9780312124809
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A History of France, 1460–1560 written by David Potter and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 1995-04-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full attention to the regional diversity of France. It also introduces the reader to recent research on the court and government set in the context of the basic social and economic movements of the period. It is argued that the basic identity of France as a nation was reinforced under the aegis of monarchical legitimacy backed by the nobility and the church, setting the pattern for the rest of the Ancien Regime.
Author : Max Beloff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317816641
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Age of Absolutism (Routledge Revivals) written by Max Beloff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, but covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period of European history. The pinnacle of absolute monarchy is cemented in Louis XIV’s France, eventually giving way to reform and revolution; the Russian Empire becomes an important player on the Western stage under Peter I and Catherine the Great; America achieves independence; and, the ideas of the Enlightenment begin to change the intellectual and religious landscape. Max Beloff analyses the period in fascinating detail in a now reissued title that will be of particular interest to students of Early Modern History, Politics and European diplomacy.
Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547164998
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (649 download)
Download or read book A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 written by Robert Black and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER XXVIII.FRANCIS I. AND CHARLES V. The closer the study and the wider the contemplation a Frenchman bestows upon his country's history, the deeper will be his feelings of patriotic pride, dashed with a tinge of sadness. France, in respect of her national unity, is the most ancient amongst the states of Christian Europe. During her long existence she has passed through very different regimens, the chaos of barbarism, the feudal system, absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, and republicanism. Under all these regimens she has had no lack of greatness and glory, material power and intellectual lustre, moral virtues and the charms of social life. Her barbarism had its Charlemagne; her feudal system St. Louis, Joan of Arc, and Bayard; her absolute monarchy Henry IV. and Louis XIV. Of our own times we say nothing. France has shone in war and in peace, through the sword and through the intellect: she has by turns conquered and beguiled, enlightened and troubled Europe; she has always offered to the foreigner a spectacle or an abode full of the curious and the attractive, of noble pleasures and of mundane amusements. And still, after so many centuries of such a grand and brilliant career, France has not yet attained the end to which she ever aspired, to which all civilized communities aspire, and that is, order in the midst of movement, security and liberty united and lasting. She has had shortcomings which have prevented her from reaping the full advantage of her merits; she has committed faults which have involved her in reverses. Two things, essential to political prosperity amongst communities of men, have hitherto been to seek in her; predominance of public spirit over the spirit of caste or of profession, and moderation and fixity in respect of national ambition both at home and abroad. France has been a victim to the personal passions of her chiefs and to her own reckless changeability. We are entering upon the history of a period and a reign during which this intermixture of merits and demerits, of virtues and vices, of progress and backsliding, was powerfully and attractively exhibited amongst the French. Francis I., his government and his times commence the era of modern France, and bring clearly to view the causes of her greatnesses and her weaknesses. Francis I. had received from God all the gifts that can adorn a man: he was handsome and tall and strong; his armor, preserved in the Louvre, is that of a man six feet high; his eyes were brilliant and soft, his smile was gracious, his manners were winning. From his very childhood he showed that he had wits, enterprise, skill, and boldness. He was but seven years old when, "on the day of the conversion of St. Paul, January 25, 1501, about two P. M., my king, my lord, my Caesar, and my son, was run away with, near Amboise, by a hackney which had been given him by Marshal de Gye; and so great was the danger that those who were present thought it was all over; howbeit God, the protector of widowed women and the defender of orphans, foreseeing things to come, was pleased not to forsake me, knowing that, if accident had so suddenly deprived me of my love, I should have been too utter a wretch." Such is the account given of this little incident by his mother, Louise of Savoy, who was at that time habitually kept, by Anne of Brittany's jealousy, at a distance from Paris and the court....
Author : Julian Swann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521827676
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy written by Julian Swann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. Although not a representative institution in any modern sense, the Estates were constantly engaged in a process of bargaining with the French crown, and this book examines that relationship under the ancien régime. Julian Swann analyses the organisation, membership and powers of the Estates and explores their administration, their struggles for power with rival institutions and their relationship with the crown and with the Burgundian people. The Estates proved remarkably resilient when confronted by the challenges posed by the Bourbon monarchy, and by the reign of Louis XVI they were seemingly more powerful than ever. However the desire to protect their privileges and to extend their authority had not been accompanied by an attempt to forge a meaningful relationship with the people they claimed to serve.
Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book On Civil Liberty and Self-government written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
