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Book:Name: Glenn Richardson - The Field of Cloth of Gold (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.92 MB
Description:Title: The Field of Cloth of Gold
Author: Glenn Richardson
Language: English
Year: 2013
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 18993818
Total pages: 402 str.
Download from RapidGator"Pomp, pageantry and epic showing-off: a vivid re-creation of the 1520 peace-promoting rally between the kings of England and France."-The Sunday Times
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...
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