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.
Editeur : Librairie Droz
Collection : Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
Publication : 1 juin 2008
Edition : 1ère édition
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Text (eye-readable) [ePub + Mobipocket + WEB]
Contenu(s) : ePub, Mobipocket, WEB
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub), Marquage social (Mobipocket), DRM (WEB)
Taille(s) : 120 ko (ePub), 330 ko (Mobipocket), 1 octet (WEB)
Langue(s) : Français
Code(s) CLIL : 3633, 3387, 3382, 3345, 3080
EAN13 Text (eye-readable) [ePub + Mobipocket + WEB] : 9782600310710
EAN13 (papier) : 9782600010719
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