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Author : David M. Bryson
Release : 1997
Genre : France
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Book Synopsis Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land of Guyenne by : David M. Bryson
Download or read book Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land of Guyenne written by David M. Bryson. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Bryson
Release : 1999-09-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land by : David Bryson
Download or read book Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land written by David Bryson. This book was released on 1999-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanne III d'Albret (1528-1572), queen of Navarre, is a subject of great controversy and fascination, yet only two modern monographs have been written about her, and both are general biographies. This book fills the gap for scholars by concentrating on Jeanne's leading role during the Wars of Religion in the vast territory of Guyenne in southwestern France. Part One, 'The Promised Land', portrays the growth of Protestantism in Guyenne, the rise of the Albret dynasty, and Jeanne's evangelisation. In part Two, 'Exodus', Queen Jeanne emerges as a Huguenot war leader in the attempt, shown in Part Three, 'Sanctuary', to create a Protestant Guyenne by force of arms. The book makes extensive use of contemporary sources, including unpublished diplomatic and military dispatches, and a controversial collection of copies of Jeanne's private correspondence.
Author : Jacqueline Broad
Release : 2009-01-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 by : Jacqueline Broad
Download or read book A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 written by Jacqueline Broad. This book was released on 2009-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: alike." --Book Jacket.
Author : Ole Peter Grell
Release : 2017-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Impact of the European Reformation by : Ole Peter Grell
Download or read book The Impact of the European Reformation written by Ole Peter Grell. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politics, of the church and of belief. Their geographical scope ranges from Scotland and England via France and Germany to Transylvania and their chronological span from the 1520s to the 1690s Considering the impact of the Reformation on political culture and examining the relationship between rulers and ruled; the book also examines the church and its personnel, another sphere of life that was entirely transformed by the Reformation. Important aspects of knowledge and belief are discussed in terms of scientific knowledge and technological progress, juxtaposed with analyses of elite and popular belief, which demonstrates the limitations of Weber's notion of the disenchantment of the world. Together they indicate the diverse directions in which Reformation scholarship is now moving, while reminding us of the need to understand particular developments within a broader European context; demonstrating that movements for religious reform left no sphere of European life untouched.
Author : Benjamin W. D. Redding
Release : 2022
Genre : England
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Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The English and French Navies, 1500-1650 by : Benjamin W. D. Redding
Download or read book The English and French Navies, 1500-1650 written by Benjamin W. D. Redding. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.
