The rise and fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 / R.J. Knecht
Knecht, R. J. (Robert Jean)
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Add to basketVery good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx, 668 pages: 2 maps; 20 cm. Contents: Note on Coinage and Measures -- Map of France (1500) -- Map of France (1585-98) -- 1. France in 1500 -- 2. minority of Charles VIII (1483-94) -- 3. Charles VIII and the Italian Wars (1494-8) -- 4. Louis XII, 'Father of the People' (1498-1515) -- 5. church in crisis -- 6. Francis I: The first decade (1515-25) -- 7. New Learning and heresy (1483-1525) -- 8. Defeat, captivity and restoration (1525-7) -- 9. War and peace (1527-38) -- 10. court and patronage of Francis I -- 11. Francis I: The last decade (1537-47) -- 12. absolutism of Francis I -- 13. Henry II, the victor of Metz (1547-52) -- 14. arts and literature under Henry II -- 15. Henry II: The tragic peace (1553-9) -- 16. France overseas -- 17. mid-century crisis -- 18. failure of conciliation (1559-62) -- 19. First Civil War (1562-3) -- 20. fragile peace (1563-6) -- 21. Second and Third Civil Wars (1566-70) -- 22. St Bartholomew's day massacres (1572) -- 23. Literary responses -- 24. Fraternal discord (1573-83) -- 25. Henry III and his court -- 26. Catholic League (1584-92) -- 27. triumph of Henry IV (1593-1610). Subjects: France History 15th century. France History 16th century. France History, 1328-1789. Renaissance. Renaissance France. France History Medieval period, 987-1515. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 3 Kg.
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The Renaissance in France, as elsewhere in Europe, saw glory crowned amidst conflict and squalor. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, France seemed set to become the most powerful nation in Europe, but as the century ebbed so did her fortunes. In between, during a century of more or less permanent combat which murdered the dreams, comforts and relatives of many Frenchmen and saw a soaring economy shot down, some of the greatest building, painting and thinking to come out of the whole European Renaissance was being done. Sixteenth-century France was a colourful, confusing and often downright fatal habitat, and we moderns might profitably look on the complexity of its successes and failures, to which Professor Knecht is a matchlessly illuminating and genial guide.
In 1500, France was by no means a legally, linguistically or culturally united country, yet it was very definitely taking the shape which was to become so recognizable. The turn of the new century saw a sequence of expansionist escapades into Italy and a jockeying for primacy and inheritance at Court. A rare and welcome stability on the land and in trade ushered in a cultural flowering which has left us beautiful chateaux and the literary masterpieces of Rabelais, Montaigne and Ronsard, amongst many other treasures. The court of King Francis I, who ascended the throne in 1515, was larger and more magnificent than its predecessors. But all this was achieved against a background of almost continuous and ever more technologically advanced warfare, chiefly against the Habsburgs, which severely tested the resources of the monarchy. Following the accidental death of Henry II in 1559, France was plunged into a period of civil war propelled in part by religious differences born of the Protestant Reformation – the internecine strife reaching an infamously bloody climax on St Bartholomew's Day 1572. Inevitably, the previously virile economy buckled, crippling noble, merchant and peasant alike and bringing misery to cities, clergy and the Court. Recovery would not come readily.
Drawing on forty years' research into primary and secondary sources, and neatly dovetailing narrative with analysis, R.J. Knecht has successfully combined virtues traditional and modern in retailing events crisply and authoritatively while also reflecting judiciously on their cultural, economic and social contexts. His book is the most comprehensive and balanced anatomy of sixteenth-century France we have; it is indispensable reading for those curious about Renaissance and Reformation Europe and for al students of France – of her past, her culture and her legacy.
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