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Emperor - A New Life of Charles V (Paperback)
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Emperor - A New Life of Charles V (Paperback)
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically
reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,
ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire"Masterly."-William
Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal "Seldom does one find a work of
such profound scholarship delivered in such elegant and engaging
prose. Drawing deftly on an astonishing volume of documentary
evidence, Parker has produced a masterpiece: an epic, detailed and
vivid life of this complex man and his impossibly large
empire."-Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times Selected as a book of
the year (2020) by Simon Sebag Montefiore in Aspects of History
magazine The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain,
Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South
America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of
the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless
travel and the control of his own image, together with the
complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire,
complicate the task. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world's leading
historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving
written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and
Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. He explores the
crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire,
analyzes Charles's achievements within the context of both personal
and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the
ruler's life for clues to his character and inclinations. The
result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of
Charles's reign and views the world through the emperor's own eyes.
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