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Download or read book Imprudent King written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences surprisingly well documented by contemporaries. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. The book examines Philip’s long apprenticeship; his three principal interests (work, play, and religion); and the major political, military, and personal challenges he faced during his long reign. Parker offers fresh insights into the causes of Philip’s leadership failures: was his empire simply too big to manage, or would a monarch with different talents and temperament have fared better?
Download or read book Imprudent King written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on four decades of research and a recent archival discovery, revises the biography of the sixteenth-century monarch as it relates to his work, religion, and personal life, and sheds light on the causes of his leadership failures.
Download or read book Imprudent King written by Geoffrey Parker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philip of Spain written by Henry Kamen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses King Philip II's reputation as narrow-minded tyrant, describes the major events of his reign, and presents a more rounded depiction of his personality
Book Synopsis Encounter Between Enemies by : Yvonne Friedman
Download or read book Encounter Between Enemies written by Yvonne Friedman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study deals with one of the first points of direct and personal contact between Europeans and Muslims during the Crusades: the ransoming of captives. It traces the changes in European mentality and the laws of warfare.
Book Synopsis Six Old English Chronicles by : John Allen Giles
Download or read book Six Old English Chronicles written by John Allen Giles and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin Originals by : John Allen Giles
Download or read book Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin Originals written by John Allen Giles and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Old English Chronicles by : John Allen Giles
Download or read book Old English Chronicles written by John Allen Giles and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Voltaire: Age of Louis XIV by : Voltaire
Download or read book The Works of Voltaire: Age of Louis XIV written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Age of Louis XIV written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The bad Christian written by Franz Hunolt and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Scotland: from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... by : Julia Corner
Download or read book The History of Scotland: from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... written by Julia Corner and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Western Political Thought by : J. S. McClelland
Download or read book A History of Western Political Thought written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinkers and texts * includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers * offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected * develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.
Download or read book The Study written by Andrew Hui and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo’s influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. Beautifully illustrated, The Study is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today.
Book Synopsis The Gospel according to st. Luke, with intr., notes, by T.M. Lindsay by : Luke (st)
Download or read book The Gospel according to st. Luke, with intr., notes, by T.M. Lindsay written by Luke (st) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
