Francis I
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Francis I
Cambridge University Press, 1982
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Bibliography: p. 435-448
Includes index
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Description
The name of Francis I and his emblem, the salamander, are familiar to the many thousands of tourists who visit the chateaux of the Loire each year. But what sort of monarch was he? Whereas in his own day he was acclaimed as 'the great king Francis', in more recent times he has generally been taken less seriously than his exact contemporaries Henry VIII of England and the Emperor Charles V. Yet his reign was no less important than theirs. It witnessed and promoted fundamental changes in France's political structure, economy, society, religion and cultural life. The king's obsession with war stimulated constitutional change. By entailing expenditures far in excess of the crown's traditional resources, it obliged him to tap new sources of wealth, to reorganise the fiscal system and to promote administrative centralisation. Economically, Francis' reign saw the completion of the recovery that had followed the Hundred Years' War. While the land was reclaimed, the population grew, town life flourished and trade expanded.
Table of Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Childhood and youth
- 2. King of France
- 3. Marignano (1515)
- 4. The Concordat of Bologna
- 5. The uneasy peace (1516-1520)
- 6. The king and his court
- 7. The loss of Milan (1520-1522)
- 8. Penury and reform
- 9. Humanism and heresy
- 10. Treason
- 11. Pavia (1523-1525)
- 12. The regency of Louise of Savoy (1525-1526)
- 13. The king's return (1526-1528)
- 14. From Cognac to Cambrai (1526-1529)
- 15. The hollow peace (1530-1534)
- 16. Domestic problems (1530-1534)
- 17. Patron of the arts and 'father of letters'
- 18. Triumph and stalemate (1535-1537)
- 19. Fruitless entente (1538-1542)
- 20. The kingdom's wealth
- 21. France overseas
- 22. The crown and the provinces
- 23. The last war (1542-1546)
- 24. Reform and resistance
- 25. The growth of persecution
- 26. The triumph of faction
- Epilogue
- Note on coinage
- Manuscript sources
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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