Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 p)
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16 pp. b-w illus
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300241020
Content:
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world's leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. He explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles's achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler's life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles's reign and views the world through the emperor's own eyes
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- PART I. YOUNG CHARLES -- PART II. GAME OF THRONES -- PART III. 'RULER FROM THE RISING TO THE SETTING OF THE SUN' -- PART IV. DOWNFALL -- APPENDICES -- Acknowledgements -- CHRONOLOGY -- ABBREVIATIONS IN THE NOTES AND SOURCES -- NOTE ON DATES AND QUOTES -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MAPS, FIGURES AND PLATES -- Index
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300196528
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Parker, Geoffrey, 1943 - Emperor New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780300254860
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300254865
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300241020
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Author information:
Parker, Geoffrey 1943-
