Catherine De'medici

ISBN-13: 9780582082410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str.

R. J. Knecht

Opis

Wife of one French king and mother of three others (Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III), Catherine de'Medici was, as Regent and Queen Mother, a key figure in French politics for 30 years. This text studies her historical influence.

Spis treści

1. Daughter of Florence (1519-33).
2. Dauphine (1533-47).
3. Queen of France (1547-59).
4. Queen Mother (1559-62).
5. War and peace (1562-66).
6. The End of Compromise (1567-70).
7. The Phoney Peace (1570-72).
8. The Favourite Son (1573-77).
9. Peacemaker (1578-84).
10. The New Artemisia.
11. Apocalypse (1584-89).
Conclusion.
Biographical Essay.
List of dates.
Map of sixteenth-century France.
Genealogies.
Index.

O autorze

R.J.KNECHT is Emeritus Professor of French History, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, at the University of Birmingham.