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The Man Who Believed He Was King of France
Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri
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Description for The Man Who Believed He Was King of France
Hardcover. Analyzes late-medieval society, exploring questions of essence and appearance, being and belief, at a time when the divine right of kings confronted the rise of mercantile culture. Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 424.
Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, "The Man Who Believed He Was King of France" proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction - or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of ... Read more
Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, "The Man Who Believed He Was King of France" proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction - or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226145259
SKU
V9780226145259
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About Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri
Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri is director of studies in medieval history at the University of Urbino and head of courses in methodology of historical research and the history of the Middle Ages. William McCuaig has translated more than a dozen books from Italian and French, including Chiara Frugoni's A Day in a Medieval City, also published by the University of ... Read more
Reviews for The Man Who Believed He Was King of France
"I read The Man Who Believed He Was King of France with great pleasure. From the wonderful first sentence, it is a fascinating story and an engaging read. Unlike an Agatha Christie mystery, where all is revealed in the end, Falconieri emphasizes the knots and twists of the skein of the tale, and we are as wrapped in it at ... Read more