Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth - Joseph Bergin - Livros - Yale University Press - 9780300048605 - 19 de setembro de 1990
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Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth

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Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) did more than anyone else to lay the foundations of French hegemony in Europe and of absolute monarchy in his own country. He was a spokesman for power politics, the idea of raison d'etat, and the right of rulers to the unquestioning obedience of their subjects. He was, in addition, one of the richest men in the entire history of France. Joseph Bergin's study of his wealth-the first full-scale analysis of the fortune of a leading political figure of the ancien regime-reveals the multiple connections that existed at that time between the tenure of political office and the accumulation of individual and family wealth. "Bergin's study of Richelieu's fortune achieves the unexpected feat of adding substantially to our knowledge of one of the most important figures in French history, largely through the exploitation of a group of hitherto unused documents. . . . Well-constructed and elegantly written. . . . The book's great virtue is . . . that it places Richelieu within the social and economic context of his time."-Times Literary Supplement "Here is a vivid and fascinating guide to the financial basis of high society in Louis XIII's France, and a precise account of how Richelieu gained and maintained his position in government. . . . A meticulous and scholarly examination of the fortune accumulated by one man, it sheds much light on the more general topic of the nature and means of noble wealth and influence in the early seventeenth century."-Roger Mettam, History Today "A brilliant, fascinating, and elegantly written book."-American Historical Review


350 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 19 de setembro de 1990
ISBN13 9780300048605
Editoras Yale University Press
Páginas 350
Dimensões 229 × 154 × 20 mm   ·   530 g
Idioma Inglês  

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