Astraea - Yates

by Frances A. Yates

Overview

This is Volume V of selected works of Frances A. Yates. Astraea looks at the Imperial theme in the sixteenth century and includes Charles V and the idea of Empire to the Tudor Imperial Reform and the French Monarchy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415606066
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/18/2010
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART I CHARLES V AND THE IDEA OF THE EMPIRE; PART II THE TUDOR IMPERIAL REFORM; QUEEN ELIZABETH I AS ASTRAEA; ELIZABETHAN CHIVALRY: THE ROMANCE OF THE ACCESSION DAY TILTS; THE TRIUMPH OF CHASTITY; PART III THE FRENCH MONARCHY;; THE IDEA OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY; THE ENTRY OF CHARLES IX AN D HIS QUEEN INTO PARIS, 1571; THE MAGNIFICENCES FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUC DE JOYEUSE, PARIS, 1581; RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS IN PARIS, 1583-4; CONCLUSION: ASTRAEA AN D THE GALLIC HERCULES