The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France - Couverture rigide

Knecht, R. J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002556790 ISBN 13 : 9780002556798

Editeur : Fontana Press, 1996

Synopsis

The court of Francis I was the largest and most magnificent France had ever seen. During the Renaissance, French culture blossomed and flowered, producing beautiful chateaux, painting and sculpture, and classic writers like Montaigne and Rabelais. But all this was achieved against the background of apparently unending war, which tested the finances of the crown and the loyalty of the people to breaking point. When Henry II died, religious tensions surfaced and France was plunged into a bloody civil war. The economy, which had flourished in the 16th century, declined dramatically, tearing the very fabric of society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied. 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 of 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 Prefessor Knect is a matchlessly illuminating and genial guide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fontana Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002556790
• ISBN 13: 9780002556798
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 546
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible