Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Volume 25 - Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584

Klappentext This volume assembles hitherto unpublished English writings in French on France! and especially its nobility! during the 1580s! a key period for understanding the final crisis of the War of Religion. They contain information on the political dispositions of the leading royal officials and on the lineage 'alliances' and the properties of a vast number of French noblemen in the provinces. Robert Cecil! son of Elizabeth's minister Burghley! was certainly involved in their composition! which seems to have been written by those involved in English missions to France in the early 1580s. Zusammenfassung This volume assembles hitherto unpublished English writings in French on France! and especially its nobility! during the 1580s! a key period for understanding the final crisis of the War of Religion. They contain information on the political dispositions of leading royal officials as well as French noblemen in the provinces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Traité des princes, conseillers et autres ministres de l'estat de France Part I, Traité Part II, Notes to Part I, Notes to Part II, Richard Cook's Description de tous les provinces de France; Appendices; Index.

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• Authors: David Potter, David (University of Kent Potter
• Assisted by: David Potter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2005
• EAN: 9780521847247
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84724-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Camden Fifth Series; Camden Fifth; Camden Fifth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science