[PDF] Francis I eBook

Author : R. J. Knecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 1984-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521278874

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R. J. Knect investigates the reign of Francis I of France.

Author : Leonie Frieda
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1474605583

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Francis 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.

Author : R. J. Knecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521578851

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A paperback of Knecht's comprehensive account of one of France's most important monarchs.

Author : Carretto, Carlo
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608339408

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"The 40th anniversary edition of an Orbis classic-Francis of Assisi's spirituality and life explained in the inimitable voice of Carlo Carretto"--

Author : Chip Wagar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0761870784

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For 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.

Author : Robert J. Knecht
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000939502

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The 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.

Author : David Linley Potter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004204326

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This 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.

Author : David Potter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004204318

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This 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.