Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis IThis book offers a full and comprehensive account of one of the most colorful and formative reigns in French history, that of Francis I (1515-47), and was published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Francis I's birth in 1494. It is a completely revised edition of Professor Knecht's earlier study of the king, first published in 1982 and for many years the standard work on the subject. That edition is now superseded by this substantially larger work, in which much new written and illustrative material has been included. No other work on the subject is as up to date or as authoritative. |
Contents
Childhood and youth | 1 |
France in 1515 | 19 |
King of France | 41 |
Marignano and after 151519 | 62 |
The Most Christian King | 88 |
The king and his court | 105 |
Humanism and heresy | 142 |
Valois versus Habsburg 151923 | 165 |
Domestic issues | 342 |
Poverty and wealth | 354 |
France overseas | 369 |
Fruitless entente 153842 | 385 |
Madrid and Fontainebleau | 398 |
Patron of the arts | 425 |
Father of letters | 462 |
The return to war 154244 | 478 |
The sinews of war | 185 |
Treason | 200 |
Defeat and captivity | 216 |
The kings return 152628 | 249 |
The Peace of the Ladies 3 August 1529 | 272 |
Protestants and Turks 152934 | 291 |
The threat of heresy | 306 |
Montmorencys triumph 153538 | 329 |
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