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Philip II (European History in Perspective) - Softcover

Buch 8 von 35: European History in Perspective

Williams, Patrick

 
9780333630433: Philip II (European History in Perspective)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0333630432 ISBN 13: 9780333630433
Verlag: Palgrave, 2001

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Four hundred years after his death, Philip II remains one of the most controversial figures in history, admired and reviled in equal measure. This new study traces the development of the 16th-century spanish king and of a kingship that lay at the heart of

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PATRICK WILLIAMS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.

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Four hundred years after his death, Philip II remains one of the most controversial figures in history, admired and reviled in equal measure. He is a figure of global importance, the first ruler on whose territories the sun never set. He led Europe in its defence against the seemingly irresistable power of the Ottoman Empire and many of the nations of Western Europe were forged in part by their responses to his ambitions - Portugal was conquered and most of Italy was controlled by him, while the Low Countries, England and France fought long and bitter wars against him. Philip proclaimed himself the leader of Catholic Europe but quarrelled incessantly with the popes of the Counter-Reformation. In consolidating his monarchy in Spain, Philip used the arts as a political tool; Titian and Palestrina did some of their greatest work for him.

This new study traces the development of Philip II and of a kingship that lay at the heart of European political, religious and cultural evolution. It looks in detail at the ministers who worked with this most demanding of kings and at the government that evolved during his reign. It deals also with the pressures of a tortured private life and explores the paradox of a man who as a young ruler was deeply prudent but who became extraordinarily aggressive in his old age and who by his successes and failures - both of them on an epic scale - re-shaped the world in which he lived.

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Verlag
Palgrave
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0333630432
ISBN 13 
9780333630433
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
316
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