Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation With Twelve Illustrations written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... I chapter xv Bernard Palissy "T desire in no way to be the imitator of my predecesX sors, unless it be in what they have done well, according to the ordinance of God. For all round me I see abuses of the arts, while every man trots in the accustomed groove and follows the footmarks of those who went before him." In these words of his own we have the keynote to Bernard Palissy. His wish to be " in no wise the imitator of his predecessors" expresses the whole man--the austere Protestant, the ardent follower of science, the fearless innovator in every branch of knowledge that he touched. There was not a vestige of tradition about him, no one was freer from swaddlingbands. "I entered into myself," he writes in another place, "so that I might search among the secrets of my heart and dive into my conscience." This power of introspection was part of his rough sincerity, his inability to acquiesce in any sort of platitude. A trenchant originality is felt in each word that he utters. "All men "--says he in his writings--" toil at cultivating the land without the remotest philosophy... without considering the nature of substances for the real good of agriculture." "To hear you speak," replies his imaginary interlocutor, "one would think that a field-labourer needed philosophy--chose que je trouve Strange." "I tell" you "--breaks forth Palissy again--" that to pursue agriculture without philosophy is no better than a daily robbing of the earth.... And I marvel that the earth and her fruits do not cry vengeance against certain murderers, ignorant and ungrateful, who day by day do nothing but waste and spoil trees and plants." Fervent, patient, irritable, many-sided, forcible, strong of body, stronger of will, his intellect dominating all things, ...
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Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the Protestant Reformation written by Nancy Whitelaw and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter of an influential family of the Italian Renaissance, Catherine married French king Francis II. After his death she struggled and schemed to keep her children on the throne and France in the Catholic fold during the bitter years of religious conflict.
Download or read book The Identities of Catherine de Medici written by Susan Broomhall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
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Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the queen who worked to achieve peace between French Protestants and Catholics during the reigns of her husband, King Henry II of France, and her sons.
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Leonie Frieda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds -- from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her fight to protect her throne and her sons' birthright. Based on thousands of private letters, it is a remarkable account of one of the most influential women ever to wear a crown.
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Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by R J Knecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine de' Medici (1519-89) was the wife of one king of France and the mother of three more - the last, sorry representatives of the Valois, who had ruled France since 1328. She herself is of preeminent importance to French history, and one of the most controversial of all historical figures. Despised until she was powerful enough to be hated, she was, in her own lifetime and since, the subject of a "Black Legend" that has made her a favourite subject of historical novelists (most notably Alexandre Dumas, whose Reine Margot has recently had new currency on film). Yet there is no recent biography of her in English. This new study, by a leading scholar of Renaissance France, is a major event. Catherine, a neglected and insignificant member of the Florentine Medici, entered French history in 1533 when she married the son of Francis I for short-lived political reasons: her uncle was pope Clement VII, who died the following year. Now of no diplomatic value, Catherine was treated with contempt at the French court even after her husband's accession as Henry II in 1547. Even so, she gave him ten children before he was killed in a tournament in 1559. She was left with three young boys, who succeeded to the throne as Francis II (1559-60), Charles IX (1560-74) and Henry III (1574-89). As regent and queen-mother, a woman and with no natural power-base of her own, she faced impossible odds. France was accelerating into chaos, with political faction at court and religious conflict throughout the land. As the country disintegrated, Catherine's overriding concern was for the interests of her children. She was tireless in her efforts to protect her sons' inheritance, and to settle her daughters in advantageous marriages. But France needed more. Catherine herself was both peace-loving and, in an age of frenzied religious hatred, unbigoted. She tried to use the Huguenots to counterbalance the growing power of the ultra-Catholic Guises but extremism on all sides frustrated her. She was drawn into the violence. Her name is ineradicably associated with its culmination, the Massacre of St Bartholomew (24 August 1572), when thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered in Paris and elsewhere. To this day no-one knows for certain whether Catherine instigated the massacre or not, but here Robert Knecht explores the probabilities in a notably level-headed fashion. His book is a gripping narrative in its own right. It offers both a lucid exposition of immensely complex events (with their profound imact on the future of France), and also a convincing portrait of its enigmatic central character. In going behind the familiar Black Legend, Professor Knecht does not make the mistake of whitewashing Catherine; but he shows how intractable was her world, and how shifty or intransigent the people with whom she had to deal. For all her flaws, she emerges as a more sympathetic - and, in her pragmatism, more modern - figure than most of her leading contemporaries.
