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R. Knecht J.. The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France
The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France. 1483–1610. R. J. KNECHT
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
General Editor’s Introduction
A Note on Coinage and Measures
Map of France (1494)
Map of France (1585–98)
Preface
Note
ONE France in 1500
The government of France
Popular representation
TWO The minority of Charles VIII and the Breton marriage(1483–94)
The Estates-General of 1484
The ‘Mad War’
The Breton Wars
Three peace treaties
THREE Charles VIII and the Italian Wars(1494–8)
FOUR Louis XII, ‘Father of the people’(1498–1515)
The king’s remarriage
The conquest of Milan
The reconquest of Naples
The succession problem
Domestic policies
The Genoese rebellion
The battle of Ravenna
A disastrous year
FIVE The church in crisis
The Pre-Reformation
SIX Francis I: The first decade(1515–25)
The new administration
Marignano (13–14 September 1515)
The Concordat of Bologna (1516)
Naples and Navarre
The ‘Perpetual’ Peace of Fribourg (29 November 1516)
The imperial election (1519)
The Field of Cloth of Gold (June 1520)
Money matters
War with the emperor (1521)
The financial crisis of 1521–3
The battle of La Bicocca (27 April 1522)
The enquiry commissions of 1523–4 and fiscal reform
The treason of Bourbon (1523)
SEVEN The New Learning and heresy(1483–1525)
The University of Paris on the eve of the Reformation
Scholasticism
Mysticism
Humanism
Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples
Guillaume Budé
The Reuchlin affair
‘Father of Letters’
The beginnings of heresy
EIGHT Defeat, captivity and restoration(1525–7)
The battle of Pavia (24 February 1525)
The regency of Louise of Savoy
The Treaty of Madrid (January 1526)
The second accession
The king breaks his word
The League of Cognac (22 May 1526)
Francis restores his authority
The condemnation of Bourbon
The condemnation of Semblançay
NINE War and peace(1527–38)
The fight against heresy
The Grande Rebeyne (April 1529)
The Ladies’ Peace (3 August 1529)
The annexation of Brittany (August 1532)
German Protestants and Turks
Henry VIII’s ‘Great Matter’
The Affair of the Placards (October 1534)
Francis and the German Protestants
The growth of persecution
The provincial legions (July 1534)
The invasion of Savoy (November 1536)
Financial matters
TEN The court and patronage of Francis I
Francis as a builder
Francis I as an art patron
The Lecteurs royaux
Poetry and prose: Clément Marot and François Rabelais
ELEVEN Francis I: The last decade(1537–47)
The emperor visits France (1539–40)
The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (30 August 1539)
Francis I and the Parlement of Rouen (1540)
The return to war (1542–4)
The gabelle revolt (1542)
The growth of faction
The Anglo-imperial alliance (1543)
The Turkish occupation of Toulon (1543–4)
The Anglo-imperial invasion (1544)
The war with England (1544–6)
Fiscal expedients and reforms
The fight against heresy
The massacre of the Vaudois (1545)
TWELVE The absolutism of Francis I
The realities of power
Representative assemblies
The death of Francis I (31 March 1547)
THIRTEEN Henry II, the victor of Metz(1547–52)
The palace revolution
Scotland and Boulogne
Italy
The gabelle revolt (1548)
Mounting persecution
The présidiaux (1552)
Parma and Metz
FOURTEEN The arts and literature under Henry II
The cult of ancient Rome
The Pléiade
FIFTEEN Henry II: The tragic peace(1553–9)
The Neapolitan voyage
The conquest of Calais (7 January 1558)
The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (3–4 April 1559)
The Calvinist menace
The tragedy of the rue Saint-Antoine
SIXTEEN France overseas
The voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano
Franco-Portuguese rivalry
The French in Canada: Cartier and Roberval
Villegaignon’s colony in Brazil
SEVENTEEN The mid – century crisis
The economic crisis
The economic crisis and the rise of Protestantism
The nobility in crisis?
Calvinism and the nobility
EIGHTEEN The failure of conciliation(1559–62)
The Tumult of Amboise (March 1560)
The search for a solution
The Fontainebleau assembly (August 1560)
The Estates-General of Orleans (13 December 1560–31 January 1561)
The Huguenot Lent (1561)
The Triumvirate (7 April 1561)
The Colloquy of Poissy (July – October 1561)
NINETEEN The First Civil War(1562–3)
The massacre at Vassy (1 March 1562)
The aftermath of Vassy
Condé’s rebellion (8 April 1562)
The battle of Dreux (19 December 1563)
Two provincial towns: Rouen and Toulouse
Rites of violence
The Edict of Amboise (19 March 1563)
TWENTY The fragile peace(1563–6)
The recapture of Le Havre (30 July 1563)
Charles IX’s majority declared (17 August 1563)
Catherine de’ Medici’s efforts at conciliation
The Gallican church and the Council of Trent
Catherine de’ Medici and the Huguenots
The court of Catherine de’ Medici
The royal tour of the kingdom (March 1564–May 1566)
Admiral Coligny and Florida
TWENTY-ONE The Second and Third Civil Wars(1566–70)
The Second Civil War (1567–8)
The battle of Saint-Denis (10 November 1567)
The Peace of Longjumeau (28 March 1568)
The Third Civil War (1568–9)
The battle of Jarnac and the death of Condé (13 March 1569)
The battle of Moncontour (3 October 1569)
The Peace of Saint-Germain (8 August 1570)
TWENTY-TWO The St Bartholomew’s day massacres (1572)
Paris and the Huguenots
The provincial massacres
The effects of the massacres on the French Reformed church
The sieges of La Rochelle and Sancerre
The ‘United Provinces of the Midi’
TWENTY-THREE Literary responses
Military autobiography
The poetry of conflict
Montaigne and stoicism
The Huguenot theory of resistance
Jean Bodin and absolutism
TWENTY-FOUR Fraternal discord(1573–83)
Two plots at court (March – April 1574)
Henry III’s accession
Alençon’s intrigues
The Peace of Monsieur (6 May 1576)
The Estates-General of Blois (December 1576–March 1577)
The Peace of Bergerac (17 September 1577)
Anjou and the Dutch revolt
TWENTY-FIVE Henry III and his court
The court
The Palace Academy
Henry III’s religiosity
Court entertainments
Royal patronage of the arts under the last Valois
TWENTY-SIX The Catholic League(1584–92)
The ‘War of the Three Henrys’
The Day of the Barricades (May 1588)
The Estates-General of Blois (1588)
Political thought of the League
The assassination of Henry III (1 August 1589)
The siege of Rouen
Paris under siege: the Sixteen
Economic decline and social unrest
TWENTY-SEVEN The triumph of Henry IV(1593–1610)
The end of the League
The Edict of Nantes (13 April 1598)
The Peace of Vervins (2 May 1598)
Sully’s administration
Sully and the king’s works
Henry IV and his private life
Henry’s patronage of the arts
Economic recovery
Aristocratic unrest
Clouds of war
Assassination
Conclusion
Bibliography. Abbreviations
General works
General surveys
Secondary works
Secondary works relevant to certain chapters
Glossary
Genealogies
Index
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