Francis I and Absolute Monarchy
Author: Robert Jean Knecht
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 44
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Author: Robert Jean Knecht
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 44
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Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780801856310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvans (classics, U. of British Columbia) examines the history of the great emperor, whose reign marks the transition between Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, including what is presently known about his life, the social structure of the empire, its relations with its neighbors, and naturally, its wars. It also examines theological issues, which split the empire and left deep divisions after Justinian's death. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Robert Jean Knecht
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781001223919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancis I, king of France from 1515 to 1547, has not always been treated by posterity with the seriousness he deserves. The French historian Jules Michelet (b. 1798?d. 1874), who has exerted a long-standing influence on popular notions of the past among his countrymen, dismissed him as a?fine talker? who allowed himself to be ruled by women, principally his mother and sister. As a child of the French Revolution, Michelet despised Francis for not having assumed leadership of the Protestant revolt against the Roman Catholic Church. Francis has also been largely eclipsed by the brilliance of the Sun King, Louis XIV. But all this has now changed. Since the 1950s there has been a revival of interest in the Renaissance and the Reformation. Francis was a central figure in both. As king, he laid the foundations of the?absolute? monarchy that was to flourish in the next century under Louis XIV. Though not entirely successful in his long struggle with the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, Francis successfully resisted his claim to the duchy of Burgundy, which, if conceded, would have dismantled the kingdom of France. Faced by the challenge of the Protestant Reformation that shattered the religious unity of his kingdom, Francis took the fateful decision to uphold the Catholic faith. He also supported some of the earliest French expeditions to the New World. On the cultural level, his legacy was second to none. Presiding over the most magnificent court north of the Alps, in which women assumed a more significant presence than in the past, he built numerous châteaus, patronized some of the most illustrious artists of his day, built up a superb library, and paved the way for the prestigious Collège de France in Paris?not a bad record for a ruler once dismissed as a lightweight.
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.
Author: Cesare Cuttica
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Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781138664531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of 'absolutism' and 'monarchism', examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author: Nicholas Henshall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1317899539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventionally, ``absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.
Author: Max Beloff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1317816641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, but covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period of European history. The pinnacle of absolute monarchy is cemented in Louis XIV’s France, eventually giving way to reform and revolution; the Russian Empire becomes an important player on the Western stage under Peter I and Catherine the Great; America achieves independence; and, the ideas of the Enlightenment begin to change the intellectual and religious landscape. Max Beloff analyses the period in fascinating detail in a now reissued title that will be of particular interest to students of Early Modern History, Politics and European diplomacy.
Author: Tyler Lange
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Published: 2014
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781139918947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe political culture of absolute monarchy that structured French society into the eighteenth century is generally believed to have emerged late in the sixteenth century. This new interpretation of the origins of French absolutism, however, connects the fifteenth-century conciliar reform movement in the Catholic Church to the practice of absolutism by demonstrating that the monarchy appropriated political models derived from canon law. Tyler Lange reveals how the reform of the Church offered a crucial motive and pretext for a definitive shift in the practice and conception of monarchy, and explains how this first French Reformation enabled Francis I and subsequent monarchs to use the Gallican Church as a useful deposit of funds and judicial power. In so doing, the book identifies the theoretical origins of later absolutism and the structural reasons for the failure of French Protestantism.
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.
Author: Robert Jean Knecht
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
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