1st Edition

Astraea - Yates

By Frances A. Yates Copyright 1975
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    298 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume V of selected works of Frances A. Yates. Astraea looks at the Imperial theme in the sixteenth century and includes Charles V and the idea of Empire to the Tudor Imperial Reform and the French Monarchy.

    PART I CHARLES V AND THE IDEA OF THE EMPIRE; PART II THE TUDOR IMPERIAL REFORM; QUEEN ELIZABETH I AS ASTRAEA; ELIZABETHAN CHIVALRY: THE ROMANCE OF THE ACCESSION DAY TILTS; THE TRIUMPH OF CHASTITY; PART III THE FRENCH MONARCHY;; THE IDEA OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY; THE ENTRY OF CHARLES IX AN D HIS QUEEN INTO PARIS, 1571; THE MAGNIFICENCES FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUC DE JOYEUSE, PARIS, 1581; RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS IN PARIS, 1583-4; CONCLUSION: ASTRAEA AN D THE GALLIC HERCULES

    Biography

    Frances A. Yates