The Parisian magistrate Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a major figure in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and their immediate aftermath. Best known for his magisterial History of his own times (covering 1546-1607) and his complementary Memoirs (covering 1553-1601), de Thou was a key political negotiator, a famous book-collector and an influential patron to scholars and writers, as well as a respected poet in his own right and a prolific correspondent. This is the first monograph on de Thou since Samuel Kinser's bibliographical study of 1966. In the course of five chapters, thematically arranged between a substantial introduction and a dramatic conclusion, Ingrid De Smet meticulously unpicks de Thou's strategies of self-fashioning and career enhancement as well as the conditions that led to his fall from grace. In doing so, this monograph not only rehabilitates de Thou as a creative (neo-Latin) writer of international allure, it also uncovers and contextualizes the complexities of de Thou's life, writings, and thought.
"Thuanus" : The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617)
67,99EUR
Catégories:
RELIGION, HISTOIRE / Histoire générale et thématique / Europe, HISTOIRE / Renaissance, LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE / Poésie, SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES.
The Parisian magistrate Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a major figure in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and their immediate aftermath. Best known for his magisterial History of his own times (covering 1546-1607) and his comple...
| Disponibilité: | Disponible |
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| Format: | EPUB | 352 Pages |
| Date de publication: | 2008-06-01 |
| Éditeur: | Librairie Droz |
| Langue: | Français |
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