The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France

Note on Coinage and Measures.

Map of France (1500).

Map of France (1585-98).

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Contents.

Conclusion.

Bibliography and References.

Glossary.

Genealogies.

Index.

"Knecht has created a synthesis of the most up-to-date research . .
. and at the same time restored narrative to history." The late
J. Russell Major

"The book deserves to establish itself as the standard account
in English of this most complicated of centuries in French
History." Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern
History, University of Oxford (of the last edition)

R. J. Knecht is Emeritus Professor of French History and a
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Arts and
Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. A Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society and a member of the Société de
l'Histoire de France, he has been Chairman of the Society for
Renaissance Studies and of the Society for the Study of French
History. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the
Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. He has
published extensively in the field of French history, and his
Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I
(1994) recently appeared in a revised French edition under the
title, Un prince de la Renaissance: François Ier et son
royaume (1998).

R. J. Knecht, University of Birmingham