1st Edition
Images of Kingship in Early Modern France Louis XI in Political Thought, 1560-1789
By Adrianna E. Bakos
Copyright 1997
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Part I “Le roi hors de page”; Chapter 1 The architect of tyranny; Chapter 2 A spider at Versailles; Chapter 3 Louis XI and the French nation; Part II “Le plus sage de nos roys”; Chapter 4 Unfettered king, unlimited greatness; Chapter 5 “Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare”; Part III “Le roi à cheval”; Chapter 6 The repentant ghost; Chapter 7 Louis XI and the idea of counsel; Epilogue;
Biography
Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
