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Author : Michael Poole
Release : 1927
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Book Synopsis Emperor of the World, etc by : Michael Poole
Download or read book Emperor of the World, etc written by Michael Poole. This book was released on 1927. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Kleinschmidt
Release : 2011-10-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Charles V by : Harald Kleinschmidt
Download or read book Charles V written by Harald Kleinschmidt. This book was released on 2011-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles V (1500-1558), King of Spain (1516-1556) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556) is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. The son of Philip the Handsome (son of the the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I) and Joanna the Mad (daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain), he became King of Spain at a time when the Valois and Habsburgs were involved in bitter disputes over northern European territories. When he was elected Holy Roman Emperor and united to the old Habsburg lands the empire of Spain, it seemed that the family might well be on the way to the universal monarchy. of Charles V it may truthfully be said that he ruled an empire on which the sun never set. he set out with high aims and ideals but found himself overwhelmed. The demands of ruling over the greatest number of territories ever accumulated by any European ruler role and the seeming impossibility of achieving peace in Europe proved too great, and the disillusioned Emperor retired to the monastery of San Yuste, where legend has it his ghost continues to advise the Spanish monarchs. This book offers a chance to see Charles against the background of turmoil and unprecedented European expansion. It is an important study in ideas of kingship and dynasty, showing the last medieval emperor defending the ideals of Christian Christendom.
Author : Anne A. Latowsky
Release : 2013-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Emperor of the World by : Anne A. Latowsky
Download or read book Emperor of the World written by Anne A. Latowsky. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.
Author : Fergus Millar
Release : 1977
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Emperor in the Roman World by : Fergus Millar
Download or read book The Emperor in the Roman World written by Fergus Millar. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne A. Latowsky
Release : 2020-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emperor of the World by : Anne A. Latowsky
Download or read book Emperor of the World written by Anne A. Latowsky. This book was released on 2020-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how the historical memory of Charlemagne was used to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.
