Joanna Milstein

The Gondi (eBook, ePUB)

Family Strategy and Survival in Early Modern France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Charting the rise of one of the great families of late sixteenth-century France, the Gondi, this book unravels the complex relationship between French society and Italians who held key positions within French government. It demonstrates how members of the Gondi family played a leading part in the finance, government, church and military affairs, and were indispensable counselors to the Queen Mother, Catherine De' Medici.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317030003
• Artikelnr.: 44864123

Autorenporträt

Joanna Milstein received her BA from Columbia University in 2004. She completed her MLitt in 2007 and PhD in History in 2011 at the University of St Andrews. Dr Milstein has taught at the University of St Andrews and Dundee University. She currently serves as director of a research program at the Medici Archive Project focused on French relations with the Medici in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction
The Gondi in France: perceptions and realities
Money for royal endeavours
Power, prowess and prestige: the Gondi in politics
Pierre de Gondi: churchman and king's man
Gondi women
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.