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The Field of Cloth of Gold (Paperback)
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The Field of Cloth of Gold (Paperback)
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Loot Price R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
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Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four
decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international
gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence,
pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late
medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter
enemies, often at war or on the brink of it. In 1520, in an effort
to bring conflict to an end, England's monarch, Henry VIII, and
Francis I of France agreed to meet, surrounded by virtually their
entire political nations, at "the Field of Cloth of Gold." In the
midst of a spectacular festival of competition and entertainment,
the rival leaders hoped to secure a permanent settlement between
them, as part of a European-wide "Universal Peace." Richardson
offers a bold new appraisal of this remarkable historical event,
describing the preparations and execution of the magnificent
gathering, exploring its ramifications, and arguing that it was far
more than the extravagant elitist theater and cynical charade it
historically has been considered to be.
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