Francis I
Author: R. J. Knecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-04-26
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521278874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR. J. Knect investigates the reign of Francis I of France.
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Francis I
Author: Leonie Frieda
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1474605583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Arguably he was also the most significant king that France ever had. A contemporary of Henry VIII of England, Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king. A courageous and heroic warrior, he was also a keen aesthete, an accomplished diplomat and an energetic ruler who turned his country into a force to be reckoned with. Bestselling historian Leonie Frieda's comprehensive and sympathetic account explores the life of the most human of all Renaissance monarchs - and the most enigmatic.
Renaissance Warrior and Patron
Author: R. J. Knecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780521578851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA paperback of Knecht's comprehensive account of one of France's most important monarchs.
I, Francis
Author: Carretto, Carlo
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1608339408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The 40th anniversary edition of an Orbis classic-Francis of Assisi's spirituality and life explained in the inimitable voice of Carlo Carretto"--
Francis I
Author: Leonie Frieda
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1474605583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Arguably he was also the most significant king that France ever had. A contemporary of Henry VIII of England, Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king. A courageous and heroic warrior, he was also a keen aesthete, an accomplished diplomat and an energetic ruler who turned his country into a force to be reckoned with. Bestselling historian Leonie Frieda's comprehensive and sympathetic account explores the life of the most human of all Renaissance monarchs - and the most enigmatic.
Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Robert J. Knecht
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1000939502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present volume brings together seventeen articles by Robert Knecht published over several decades on particular aspects of the reign, with three specially translated from French into English. They examine the period in more depth than was possible in the author's 1994 biography of Francis I, and include studies of the Concordat of 1516 with the papacy, the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, the lit-de-justice of 1527, and the visit to France of the Emperor Charles V in 1540. Other articles consider the king’s attitude to the Reformation, his court, his relations with Paris and visits to Aquitaine, his patronage of architecture as demonstrated by his building of the château of Fontainebleau, and his relations with his mother, Louise of Savoy, and sister, Marguerite d’Angoulême. The king’s love of books and the political advice he received from scholars are also considered as well as the extent of his ’absolutism’. Two articles compare the English and French Reformations and the nobilities of the two countries. The volume is intended as a contribution to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Francis I’s accession.
Henry VIII and Francis I
Author: David Linley Potter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9004204326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to explore the neglected subject of the final war between France and England at the end of Henry VIII’s and Francis I’s reigns. The relationship between these two monarchs has long fascinated historians and serious work has been done in the last generation, especially on the earlier period. Rather less has been done on the end of their reigns. The perspective is a dual one, from both that of England and France, with equal weight given to the reasons for conflict and the effects of war on both (on land and sea, in France and Scotland). For England, the military effort of the period proved to be extremely damaging and long-lasting, while France found itself at war on two fronts for the first time since the early 1520s. The book therefore asks why Henry VIII opted for the imperial alliance in 1542, thus committing himself to war in the long term, and why Francis I and his advisers did not do more to win over the English alliance. The Anglo-French war needs to be placed firmly in the context of the great Habsburg-Valois dual. The Anglo-French wars of this period have not received any serious modern analysis and the study of diplomacy in the period needs to be updated. Maps and plans are included and some illustrations.
Henry VIII and Francis I
Author: David Potter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9004204318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, based on a wide variety of contemporary sources, re-examines the little-studied late war between Henry VIII and Francis I in order to assess its impact on both countries and its influence on strategies and tactics for waging war and making peace in the 1540s.
Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I
Author: David O. McNeil
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9782600030571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouble Emperor
Author: Chip Wagar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0761870784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor forty-three years, Francis I of Austria ruled a vast heterogenous Empire that came to dominate the continent of Europe. Ascending Charlemagne’s thousand-year throne of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of twenty-four on the unexpected death of his father, this scion of the ancient Habsburg dynasty became the first Emperor of Austria and for two years, the only Double Emperor in history. Both the father in law of Napoleon Bonaparte and his chief rival for dominance of the continent of Europe, Francis eventually led a coalition of nations to Paris in 1814 and sent Napoleon into exile. The exiled Napoleon’s only son and heir lived with his grandfather thereafter in Vienna until his tragic early death. Kings, ministers, generals and the glitterati of Europe gathered under his watchful eye at the Congress of Vienna to decide the fate of a continent in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars in which he played a pivotal role. The Congress saw the emergence of his new Austrian Empire as the most dominant power in continental Europe until long after his death twenty years later. A devoted husband, father and grandfather, his modest lifestyle and simple tastes that set the tone of the Biedermeier era concealed a complex and calculating ruler whose initial, cautious liberalism gradually evolved into a stoic conservatism. No other life-biography in English has been written about this mysterious but powerful figure of early 19th century Europe whom Metternich and Radetzky called their master.
