Emperor : a new life of Charles V /
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 the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, toge...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. YOUNG CHARLES
- From Duke of Luxemburg to Prince of Castile, 1500-8
- The Orphan Prince, 1509-14
- The Difficult Inheritance, 1515-17
- PART II. GAME OF THRONES
- From King of Spain to King of the Romans, 1517-19
- From Peace through Rebellion to War, 1519-21
- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat, 1521-5
- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory, 1525-8
- Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
- PART III. 'RULER FROM THE RISING TO THE SETTING OF THE SUN'
- The Last Crusader, 1532-6
- Years of Defeat, 1536-41
- Settling Scores, Part I. Guelders and France, 1541-4
- Settling Scores, Part II: Germany and Italy, 1545-8
- The Taming of America
- Part IV. DOWNFALL
- Paterfamilias, 1548-51
- The Emperor's Last Campaigns, 1551-4
- Restless Retirement, 1555-8
- The Emperor in Legend and History
- 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'