Download or read book Emperor written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). 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 capturing the nature of this elusive man has proven notoriously difficult—especially given his relentless travel, tight control of his own image, and the complexity of governing the world’s first transatlantic empire. 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. In Emperor, 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.
Download or read book Charles V written by Harald Kleinschmidt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 349 pages. 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.
Download or read book The History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor Charles V written by Martyn Rady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his death in 1558, he was to play a central role on the European political stage. The book is a clear introduction to the often confusing train of events in the first half of the sixteenth century. It looks at Charles's response to the Protestant Reformation in Germany; his efforts to retain the Netherlands under Habsburg control; his struggle with France for domination over Italy; and his attempts to check the expansion of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean.
Download or read book The Parisian Summit 1377 78 written by František Šmahel and published by Karolinum Press, Charles University. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. The author describes with intelectual brilliance and narrative talent the journey from Prague to Paris as a step by step journey reportage using contemporary French chronicles and vast medievistic literature as well as many beautiful illustrations. The result is an appealing account on medieval life, everyday and intelectual, mentality, grand European politics of the time or even medieval cuisine. The first part of the book presents the well-known facts of Charles IV life (brought up in Paris, his father’s John Luxemberg’s political and representational activities, his international goals, etc.). The middle part of the book brings a transcription of richly illustrated French chronicles. The third part analyses the importance of the meeting of the two most powerful European rulers of the time. Final and most original part consists of individual studies concerning practical organisation of medieval festivities, its logistic, transport, or culinary details, the court manners, relationships and symbolics. Šmahel draws from latest knowledge and methods from archeology and microhistory to cultural anthropology or iconography. This as a highly readable account of medieval time inspiring in its originality for expert historians as well as appealing to the general public.
Download or read book The Autobiography of the Emperor Charles V written by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reign of Charles V written by William Maltby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we remember the reign of Charles V? What happened in those years that altered the course of history and helped to shape the world we live in today? Few ages have been more important to the history of Europe and America than the reign of Charles V. Charles ruled the first truly global empire, his sovereignty extending beyond Spain to the Netherlands, much of Italy, the Americas, and the Holy Roman Empire. His life saw the waning of the Renaissance, the religious transformation of Europe by the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, and the emergence of Spain as a leading international power. At the same time, the conquests of Mexico and Peru, the establishment of a Habsburh empirein eastern Europe, and a series of wars with France, the Ottoman Empire and the German Protestants transformed European politics and the global economy. William Maltby's engaging new study not only looks at Charles V as a person, but also examines important critical issues: the emperor's policies and their consequences; the institional, economic and intellectual development of his various realms; and his military and diplomatic struggles. Concise and readable, it provides students and the general reader with an indispensable introduction to a reign that defies historical comparison, and an era that changed the world.
Download or read book The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the XVIth Ct and The Life of Charles V After His Abdication written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emperor Charles V Impresario of War written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The History Of The Reign Of The Emperor Charles V written by and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V and His Ambassadors at the Courts of England and France written by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor Charles V written by Edward Armstrong and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1902 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: