RISE & FALL OF RENAISSANCE EB
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RISE & FALL OF RENAISSANCE EB

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RISE & FALL OF RENAISSANCE EB

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The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied.

The Renaissance in France, as elsewhere in Europe, saw glory crowned amidst conflict and squalor. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, France seemed set to become the most powerful nation of Europe, but as the century ebbed so did her fortunes. In between, during a century of more or less permanent combat which murdered the dreams, comforts and relatives of many Frenchmen and saw a soaring economy shot down, some of the greatest building, painting and thinking to come out of the whole European Renaissance was being done. Sixteenth-century France was a colourful, confusing and often downright fatal habitat, and we moderns might profitably look on the complexity of its successes and failures, to which Prefessor Knect is a matchlessly illuminating and genial guide.

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Information

Publisher
Fontana Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780007292097
eBook ISBN
9780007393381
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. General Editor’s Introduction
  6. A Note on Coinage and Measures
  7. Map of France (1494)
  8. Map of France (1585–98)
  9. Preface
  10. 1: France in 1500
  11. 2: The Minority of Charles VIII and The Breton Marriage (1483–94)
  12. 3: Charles VIII and The Italian Wars (1494–8)
  13. 4: Louis XII, ‘Father of the People’ (1498–1515)
  14. 5: The Church in Crisis
  15. 6: Francis I: The First Decade (1515–25)
  16. 7: The New Learning and Heresy (1483–1525)
  17. 8: Defeat, Captivity and Restoration (1525–7)
  18. 9: War and Peace (1527–38)
  19. 10: The Court and Patronage of Francis I
  20. 11: Francis I: The Last Decade (1537–47)
  21. 12: The Absolutism of Francis I
  22. 13: Henry II, the Victor of Metz (1547–52)
  23. 14: The Arts and Literature Under Henry II
  24. 15: Henry II: The Tragic Peace (1553–9)
  25. 16: France Overseas
  26. 17: The Mid-Century Crisis
  27. 18: The Failure of Conciliation (1559–62)
  28. 19: The First Civil War (1562–3)
  29. 20: The Fragile Peace (1563–6)
  30. 21: The Second and Third Civil Wars (1566–70)
  31. 22: The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacres (1572)
  32. 23: Literary Responses
  33. 24: Fraternal Discord (1573–83)
  34. 25: Henry III and his Court
  35. 26: The Catholic League (1584–92)
  36. 27: The Triumph of Henry IV (1593–1610)
  37. Conclusion
  38. Bibliography
  39. Glossary
  40. Genealogies
  41. Index
  42. About the Author
  43. The Fontana History Series
  44. About the Publisher