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Author: J. H. Elliott Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521406741 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.
Author: J. H. Elliott Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521406741 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.
Author: John Huxtable Elliott Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788484322962 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : es Pages : 268
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John H. Elliott nos ofrece aquí el análisis comparado de esas dos grandes figuras de la Europa moderna que fueron Olivares y Richelieu, y nos demuestra que fueron más semejantes -y más equilibrados en méritos- de lo que acostumbramos a suponer. Su análisis, sin embargo, va más allá de los hombres, a las formas de organización política, para atacar el tópico que da por sentado que el estado centralizado francés prefiguraba la forma de organización del futuro y tenía una inmensa superioridad sobre la fragmentada monarquía de los Austrias. Elliott ilumina con ello la historia del absolutismo y nos aporta nuevas perspectivas sobre el nacimiento del estado moderno.
Author: John Huxtable Elliott Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300044997 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 774
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Traces the life of King Philip IV's principal minister, describes the Count-Duke's efforts to stop Spain's decline, and looks at seventeenth century European politics
Author: R J Knecht Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317874544 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recent interpretations have been more favourable and in this incisive study R. J. Knecht uses recent research to reassess Richelieu's career and achievements.
Author: George Payne Rainsford James Publisher: ISBN: 9780371201367 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Author: John Clyde Loftis Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691198098 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 304
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Spain alone produced a Renaissance drama comparable to that of England, yet the two nations were enemies, separated by the worldwide conflict of Catholics and Protestants. Major dramatists on both sides addressed the divisive issues: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca in Spain; Shakespeare, Marlowe, Chapman, Massinger, and Middleton in England. In this comprehensive work, a distinguished authority on drama examines history plays, masques, and spectacles, with close attention to the changing development of the two national dramas, he directs us to the study of their suprrising similarities. The author's lucid exposition makes possible an assessment of the commentary on historical events provided by the dramatists. In the early years of the Thirty Years' War, he points out, dramtaists unknowingly carried on a dialogue now audible to us: Massinger and Middleton warn of Spain's intentions; Lope, Tirso, and Calderon provide assurance that their English coutnerparts were not alarmists. Goruping works chronologically by subject or thematic relevance to phases of Anglo-Spanish relations in broad European context, Professor Loftis examines Lope's plays about the campaigns fought by the Spanish Army of Flanders and Marlowe's and Chapman's plays about French history from 1572 to 1602. John Loftis is Margery Bailey Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He is author of numerous works, including The Spanish Plays of Neoclassical England (Yale) and Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England (Blackwell/Harvard). Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Rosario Villari Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226856377 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Originally published in Italian as L'Uomo Barocco (Editori Laterza), in 1991. Several chapters are published from the authors' original English-language versions, revised; one has been translated form the author's original French-language version, revised. Contributors develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in characteristic social roles of the Baroque period, such as the statesman, the nun, the soldier, the artist, the witch, the scientist, and the bourgeois. Paper edition (85637-2), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: David E. Kaiser Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674002722 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
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Kaiser looks at 400 years of modern European history to find the political causes of war in four distinct periods, and shows how war became a natural function of politics. In a new preface and chapter, he shows which aspects of four past areas of conflict do--and do not--seem relevant to the near future, and sketches out new possibilities for Europe.
Author: J. H. Elliott
Author: J. H. Elliott
Author: John Huxtable Elliott
Author: John Huxtable Elliott
Author: John Huxtable Elliott
Author: R J Knecht
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: John Clyde Loftis
Author: Rosario Villari
Author: David E. Kaiser