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Jun 25, 2019 · Selected as a book of the year (2020) by Simon Sebag Montefiore in Aspects of History magazine. 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 ...
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- Geoffrey Parker
The Coronation Book of Charles V and Related Miniatures. Historiated Charters. A Feudal Register: Portraits in a Copy of the Hommages du Comte de Clermont. Les grandes chroniques de France. 4. Devotional and Donor Portraits 45. Portraits of Charles V in Small Devotional Images. The Parement de Narbonne. The Louvre Donor Portraits. 5.
- Claire Richter Sherman
The library assembled by Charles V of France and lodged in the Falconry Tower at the Louvre was more than a fabulous collection of books; it illustrated the promotion of French as the language of learning and government and was also a sign of royal authority - a prerogative of the King of France. The library of Charles V became a model for ...
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Histoire des fléaux et des calamités en France, Paris Google Scholar. Whiteley, M. ( 1992 ), ‘ Le Louvre de Charles V; dispositions et fonctions d’une residence royale ’, Revue de l’art 97 Google Scholar. The New Cambridge Medieval History - April 2000.
- Françoise Autrand
- 2000
Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Brétigny. …more
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.
Charles V (born Jan. 21, 1338, Vincennes, Fr.—died Sept. 16, 1380, Nogent-sur-Marne) was the king of France from 1364 who led the country in a miraculous recovery from the devastation of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), reversing the disastrous Anglo-French settlement of 1360. Having purchased the Dauphiné (on ...
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