Download or read book Henri IV of France written by Vincent J. Pitts and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France’s most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by religious civil war and political and economic instability. By the end of his reign in 1610 he had pacified his warring country, restored its prosperity, and reclaimed France’s place as a leading power in Europe. Pitts draws upon the rich scholarship of recent decades to tell the captivating story of this pivotal French king. From boyhood, Henri was destined to be leader and protector of the Huguenot movement in France. He served as chief of the Calvinist party and fought for the Huguenot forces in the bloody Wars of Religion before an extraordinary sequence of dynastic mishaps left the Protestant warlord next in line for the French crown. Henri was forced to renounce his faith in support of his claim to the Catholic throne and to unite his deeply divided country. A master of political maneuvering, Henri restored order to a country in the throes of great religious, political, and economic upheaval. He was assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot. Vincent Pitts expertly recounts this history and skillfully untangles its complex set of personalities and events. Pitts engages the vast amount of literature relating to the king himself as well as the large body of recent scholarship on France during this time. The result is a fascinating biography of a French king and a comprehensive history of sixteenth-century France.
Download or read book France in the Age of Henri IV written by Mark Greengrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated.
Download or read book Henry IV written by David Buisseret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie over de Franse koning (1553-1610)
Download or read book History of the Reign of Henry IV King of France and Navarre written by Martha Walker Freer and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conversion of Henri IV written by Michael Wolfe and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paris is worth a Mass". So said Henri IV on his conversion to Catholicism, according to cynics, and the motives behind the act have been the stuff of history ever since. The Conversion of Henri IV reclaims the religious significance of this momentous event in the development of the French monarchy and early modern political culture. Michael Wolfe offers an in-depth account of the political, diplomatic, and theological dimensions of the 1593 conversion of the Protestant Henri de Navarre. Where others have emphasized the ideological aspects of the conflict sparked by the conversion, Wolfe situates the controversy within contemporary ideas about confessional change and practice, as well as the historical traditions that defined what it meant to be French. Using pamphlets, sermons, letters, and memoranda, he traces the conversion crisis as it unfolded in the minds of the king's subjects and as it affected their loyalties and actions during the last religious wars. In this analysis, the public response to Henri IV's conversion reveals a great deal about contemporary notions of personal piety and the Church, political ideals and the state, as well as social identity and obligations. Joining the history of mentalite with that of political and religious behavior, Wolfe also pays close attention to the impact of military and political developments. This approach helps explain the fundamental role of Henri IV's conversion in the establishment and acceptance of Bourbon absolutism in the last two centuries of the ancien regime. While not denying the political importance of Henri IV's conversion, this book underscores the profound religious implications of the event. It puts religion back into theWars of Religion and thereby enhances our understanding of the rise of the early modern French state.
Download or read book L esprit d Henri IV Anecdotes of Henry IV of France shewing the great encouragement he gave to literature With several of his letters never before published Translated from the French of L L Prault written by Louis Laurent PRAULT and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Memoirs of Henri IV written by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Bourbon written by Desmond Seward and published by Thistle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the Bourbon dynasty, Henry IV, who ruled France from 1589 to 1610, is the most romantic of French kings. Very different from his grandson Louis XIV, he was a hard-fighting, hard swearing Southerner, who fought over 200 battles and had 60 (recorded) mistresses* After surviving his predecessor's murderous court, he rebuilt a France ruined by thirty years of war between Catholics and Protestants, enabling her to become the most powerful country in Europe. A man of enormous charm and humanity, he was famous for promising that every French peasant was going to have a chicken in the pot in Sundays. Even Napoleon admired him, always keeping a statue of him nearby.
Download or read book History of the Reign of Henry IV King of France and Navarre Henry IV and Marie de Medici 2 v written by Martha Walker Freer and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henri IV written by David Buisseret and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Henri IV King of France and Navarre written by Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe (abp. of Paris) and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots in France written by Paul Ferdinand Willert and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1893 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hero or Tyrant Henry III King of France 1574 89 written by Professor Robert J Knecht and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at best a self-indulgent, ineffectual ruler, and at worst a debauched tyrant responsible for a series of catastrophic political blunders, his reputation has long been a poor one. Yet recent scholarship has begun to question the validity of this judgment and look for a more rounded assessment of the man and his reign. For, as this new biography of Henry demonstrates, there is far more to this fascinating monarch than the pantomime villain depicted by previous generations of historians and novelists. Based upon a rich and diverse range of primary sources, this book traces Henry’s life from his birth in 1551, the sixth child of Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici. It following his upbringing as the Wars of Religion began to tear France apart, his election as king of Poland in 1573, and his assumption of the French crown a year later following the death of his brother Charles IX. The first English-language biography of Henry for over 150 years, this study thoroughly and dispassionately reassesses his life in light of recent scholarship and in the context of broader European diplomatic, political and religious history. In so doing the book not only provides a more nuanced portrait of the monarch himself, but also helps us better understand the history of France during this traumatic time.
Download or read book The First Bourbon Henri IV King of France and Navarre written by Desmond Seward and published by Boston : Gambit. This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry King of France written by Heinrich Mann and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Henry, King of France', the sequel to 'Young Henry of Navarre', the compelling epic of Henry IV's reign over France is followed to its tragic destiny. The novel recounts two decades of chaos and war that led to the triumphant founding of the French Republic and culminated in the King's assassination in 1589.
Download or read book Cardinal Richelieu and the Development of Absolutism written by Geoffrey Russell Richards Treasure and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry IV written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
