Richelieu and his Age
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 15 October 1992
- ISBN 9780198202318
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 240x162x21 mm
- Weight 595 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 plates, line figures, 2 maps 0
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Long description:
This study of Cardinal Richelieu's career as chief minister to Louis XIII of France presents the original research of eight experts in the field. Linking their work is the belief that Richelieu's ministry was a significant moment in the history of early modern France.
The authors reject the traditional picture of Richelieu as the single-handed creator of the French absolute state and the original exponent of Realpolitik. Instead they paint a collective portrait of a statesman politically astute but none the less devout. The Richelieu who emerges is in many respects a conservative figure, but one driven by a genuine desire to establish a more just and peaceful society (both in France and in Europe). The emphasis here then is on Richelieu the Cardinal, not Richelieu the secular statesman. The tragedy and irony of his ministry, as the authors also show, was that in order to maintain himself in power, Richelieu had to behave more like a Renaissance prince than a Counter-Reformation prelate.
'Collected volumes are such an uneven and proliferating genre that the first thing to be said is that this is a model of its kind. ... unusually coherent, aided no doubt by its origins in a conference held in march 1991 ... lively and important mid-term report on the cardinal and his age ... an admirable and frequently stimulating volume.'
H. M. Scott, French History
Table of Contents:
List of plates
List of maps
Abbreviations
Note on quotations
List of contributors
Introduction
Richelieu as Chief Minister: A comparative study of the favourite in early seventeenth-century politics
'Une Bonne Paix': Richelieu's foreign policy and the peace of Christendom
Richelieu and reform: Rhetoric and political reality
Louis XIII, Richelieu, and the royal finances
Richelieu, the Grands, and the French army
Richelieu and his bishops? Ministerial power and episcopal patronage under Louis XIII
Richelieu and the arts
Richelieu, education, and the state
Bibliography
Index
