R. J. Knecht

Renaissance France 1483-1610 2e

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on more than 40 years of research and combining narrative with analysis, R. J. Knecht describes the rise and fall of France in the sixteenth century clearly and authoritatively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 845g
• ISBN-13: 9780631227298
• ISBN-10: 0631227296
• Artikelnr.: 13584920

Autorenporträt

R. J. Knecht is Emeritus Professor of French History and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Société de l'Histoire de France, he has been Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies and of the Society for the Study of French History. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively in the field of French history, and his Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I (1994) recently appeared in a revised French edition under the title, Un prince de la Renaissance: François Ier et son royaume (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Coinage and Measures.

Map of France (1500).

Map of France (1585-98).

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Contents.

Conclusion.

Bibliography and References.

Glossary.

Genealogies.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Knecht has created a synthesis of the most up-to-date research . . . and at the same time restored narrative to history." The late J. Russell Major

"The book deserves to establish itself as the standard account in English of this most complicated of centuries in French History." Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford (of the last edition)