Francis I Knecht Paperback Cambridge University Press 9780521278874

Francis I\n\nR. J. Knect investigates the reign of Francis I of France.\n\nR. J. Knecht (Author)\n\n9780521278874, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 26 April 1984\n\n516 pages\n23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.716 kg\n\n'Until Desmond Seward's Prince of the Renaissance there was no modern life in English, and until now no full-scale biography at all. The gap is superbly filled by R. J. Knecht's fresh book. Francis I is vigorous, exhaustive, and much rarer in a work of this range and scale - particularly well measured and shaped \u2026 a model of what a dense historical biography should be.' The Times\n\nThe name of Francis I and his emblem, the salamander, are familiar to the many thousands of tourists who visit the chateaux of the Loire each year. But what sort of monarch was he? Whereas in his own day he was acclaimed as 'the great king Francis', in more recent times he has generally been taken less seriously than his exact contemporaries Henry VIII of England an]