Product Description: This book presents a revisionist examination of the development of European intellectual culture between the high middle ages and 1550. It draws particular attention to the roles of Marsilio Ficino and Erasmus and analyzes major aspects of the work of Aquinas, Soctus, and Ockham, before moving on to Petrarch, Valla, Pico della Mirandola, the devotio moderna, More, Luther, Calvin, and their contemporaries...read more

Written with great psychological insight, this nuanced portrait of France's legendary 'sun king' reveals a monarch who half-believed the mythology surrounding him but nevertheless felt tremendous guilt about the poverty, corruption, and violence that convulsed his kingdom beneath the veneer of royal wealth.

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Product Description: In an extraordinary drama sweeping across seventeenth-century France, this probing biography of Cardinal Richelieu explores how a man of steely intelligence and ruthless ambition not only fulfilled his dreams of social prestige, personal wealth, and political power but at the same time realized his vision of a France unified as much by its culture as by its king...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Guide to French Literature, in two volumes, surveys the lives and works of famous French writers from the roots of French literature to the present. Compiled and edited by the eminent scholar Professor A.H.T Levi, the Guide offers comprehensive entries on over 300 of the most notable French authors from Ronsard, Montaigne and the Crebillons to Camus and Le Clezio...read more

Product Description: The Guide to French Literature, in two volumes, surveys the lives and works of famous French writers from the roots of French literature to the present. Compiled and edited by the eminent scholar Professor A.H.T Levi, the Guide offers comprehensive entries on over 300 of the most notable French authors from Ronsard, Montaigne and the Crebillons to Camus and Le Clezio...read more

Product Description: The Guide to French Literature, in two volumes, surveys the lives and works of famous French writers from the roots of French literature to the present. Compiled and edited by the eminent scholar Professor A.H.T Levi, the Guide offers comprehensive entries on over 300 of the most notable French authors from Ronsard, Montaigne and the Crebillons to Camus and Le Clezio...read more