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1 online resource (659 pages) |
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Longman Companions To History |
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Longman companions to history.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of genealogical tables; Preface; 1 Chronology of public events, 1378-1534; 2 Popes; 2.1 Popes and antipopes; 2.2 Profiles of Renaissance popes; 3 Holy Roman Empire; 3.1 Emperors of the Houses of Luxemburg Wittelsbach and Habsburg; 3.2 Imperial electors; 3.3 Secular principalities of the Empire; 3.4 Ecclesiastical states in the Empire; 3.5 Free Imperial Cities; 3.6 Swiss Confederation, c. 1500; 3.7 Imperial chancellors; 4 Heads of states and dynasties; 4.1 Anjou: French royal dukes |
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4.2 Aragon: kings of the Houses of Trastámara and Habsburg4.3 Bohemia: elected kings; 4.4 Bourbon: French royal dukes; 4.5 Brandenburg: electors of the House of Hohenzollern; 4.6 Brittany: dukes of the House of Montfort; 4.7 Burgundy: dukes of the House of Valois; 4.8 Byzantium: emperors of the House of Palaeologus; 4.9 Castile and León: kings of the House of Trastámara; 4.10 Cyprus: kings of the House of Lusignan; 4.11 Denmark (with Norway): elected kings; 4.12 England: kings of the Houses of Plantagenet, Lancaster, York and Tudor |
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4.13 Ferrara: signori, marquises and dukes of the House of Este4.14 Florence: heads of the Medici family, later dukes of Florence and grand dukes of Tuscany; 4.15 France: kings of the Houses of Valois; 4.16 Granada: Nasrid kings; 4.17 Holy Roman Empire: emperors of the Houses of Luxemburg, Wittelsbach and Habsburg; 4.18 Hungary: elected kings; 4.19 Mantua: marquises, then dukes of the House of Gonzaga; 4.20 Milan: dukes of the Houses of Visconti and Sforza; 4.21 Muscovy: grand dukes; 4.22 Naples: kings of the Houses of Anjou and Aragon |
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4.23 Navarre: kings of the Houses of Evreux, Aragon and Foix4.24 Norway: kings; 4.25 Orléans: French royal dukes; 4.26 Ottoman Empire: sultans; 4.27 Palatinate of the Rhine: electors of the House of Wittelsbach; 4.28 Poland-Lithuania: elected kings of the House of Jagiello; 4.29 Portugal: kings of the Houses of Aviz and Braganza; 4.30 Savoy-Piedmont: counts and dukes; 4.31 Saxony: dukes and electors of the House of Wettin; 4.32 Scotland: kings of the House of Stuart; 4.33 Sicily: kings; 4.34 Sweden: elected kings |
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4.35 Urbino: counts, then dukes of the Houses of Montefeltro, Della Rovere and Medici5 Genealogical tables; 5.1 The Sforza of Milan: at the crossroads of Renaissance Europe; 5.2 Iberia, the Empire and the dynastic policy of Ferdinand of Aragon; 6 Courts and households; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 French royal residences; 6.3 Royal household: kings of France, 1463-1516; 6.4 Royal household: Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, 1426-38; 6.5 Noble court: the Montefeltro at Urbino; 6.6 Noble household: Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Warwick, 1420-21 |
| Summary |
This new Companion is the ideal reference guide. It fills a gap by providing an authoritative but accessible reference on political, economic, religious, social, as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. It contains information on all major topics including the church, war and diplomacy, civic life, learning and letters, printing, the economy, science and technology, the arts, across Europe and the wider world |
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6.7 Cardinal's household: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zen, 1501 |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317885627 |
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1317885627 |
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