R J Knecht

Catherine de'Medici (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Catherine de' Medici (1518-89) is one of the most controversial of all historical figures. Wife of one French King and mother of three others she was as Regent and Queen Mother, a key figure in the French Wars of Religion. Praised as a peacemaker she has also been blamed for the Massacre of St Bartholomew (24 August 1572): Professor Knecht goes behind the familiar Black Legend to assess the real Catherine; and while no attempt is made to whitewash her he reveals a more sympathetic and, in her pragmatism, more modern figure than most of her leading contemporaries. This study, the first recent biography of her in English, by a leading scholar of Renaissance France, is a major event.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317896876
• Artikelnr.: 41214028

Autorenporträt

R.J.KNECHT is Emeritus Professor of French History, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Daughter of Florence (1519-33).
2. Dauphine (1533-47).
3. Queen of France (1547-59).
4. Queen Mother (1559-62).
5. War and peace (1562-66).
6. The End of Compromise (1567-70).
7. The Phoney Peace (1570-72).
8. The Favourite Son (1573-77).
9. Peacemaker (1578-84).
10. The New Artemisia.
11. Apocalypse (1584-89).
Conclusion.
Biographical Essay.
List of dates.
Map of sixteenth-century France.
Genealogies.
Index.