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Images of Kingship in Early Modern France

Louis XI in Political Thought, 1560-1789

Adrianna E Bakos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:22nd May '97

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Louis XI, known as "The Spider King" because he wove many intricate plots, lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel, cunning, rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fled to his banner whilst constitutionalists reviled him as a rapacious totalitarian murderer. In Images of Kingship in Early Modern France, Adrianna Bakos uses the changing nature of Louis XI's historical reputation to explore the intellectual and political climate of early modern France.
Using Louis XI's historical reputation as a prism for fresh investigation, Adrianna Bakos offers new, more complex interpretations of the ideological landscape of early modern France. Images of Kingship in Early Modern France is an important contribution to European historiography and to debates on historical versus political interpretations of Kingship.

ISBN: 9780415154789

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 544g

280 pages