Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

by Geoffrey Parker
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

by Geoffrey Parker

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Overview

This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).

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 capturing the nature of this elusive man has proven notoriously difficult—especially given his relentless travel, tight control of his own image, and the complexity of governing the world’s first transatlantic empire.

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. In Emperor, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300241020
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 06/24/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 791
Sales rank: 283,207
File size: 56 MB
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About the Author

Geoffrey Parker teaches history at The Ohio State University. He has published forty books, including Global Crisis and Imprudent King for Yale University Press.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Note on Conventions xviii

Part I Young charles

1 From Duke of Luxemburg to Prince of Castile, 1500-8 3

2 The Orphan Prince, 1509-14 25

3 The Difficult Inheritance, 1515-17 44

Portrait of the Emperor as a Young Man 66

Part II Game of Thrones

4 From King of Spain to King of the Romans, 1517-19 75

5 From Peace through Rebellion to War, 1519-21 101

6 Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat, 1521-5 130

7 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory, 1525-8 149

8 Champion of the Western World, 1528-31 181

Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince 203

Part III 'Ruler from the rising to the setting of the sun'

9 The Last Crusader, 1532-6 225

10 Years of Defeat, 1536-41 248

11 Settling Scores, Part I: Guelders and France, 1541-4 278

12 Settling Scores, Part II: Germany and Italy, 1545-8 308

13 The Taming of America 342

Portrait of the Emperor in his Prime 376

Part IV Downfall

14 Paterfamilias, 1548-51 395

15 The Emperor's Last Campaigns, 1551-4 425

16 Restless Retirement, 1555-8 460

17 The Emperor in Legend and History 490

Epilogue: The Balance of the Reign 503

Appendices:

I The Emperor's Memoirs

II The Afterlife of Charles V's Body

III The Emperor's Last Instructions to Philip II

IV 'Infanta Isabel of Castile, daughter of His Majesty the emperor'

Acknowledgements 547

Chronology 552

Abbreviations in the Notes and Sources 564

Note on Dates and Quotes 568

Note on Sources 569

Notes 596

Bibliography 687

List of Maps, Figures and Plates 720

Index 722

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