Table of Contents

1. Daughter of Florence (1519-33).
2. Dauphine (1533-47).
3. Queen of France (1547-59).
4. Queen Mother (1559-62).
5. War and peace (1562-66).
6. The End of Compromise (1567-70).
7. The Phoney Peace (1570-72).
8. The Favourite Son (1573-77).
9. Peacemaker (1578-84).
10. The New Artemisia.
11. Apocalypse (1584-89).
Conclusion.
Biographical Essay.
List of dates.
Map of sixteenth-century France.
Genealogies.
Index.

About the Author

R.J.KNECHT is Emeritus Professor of French History, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews

"far more readable than any of its predecessors...a crisp, no-nonsense political analysis""Ecclesiastal History"