Images of Kingship in Early Modern France

<p>Louis XI known as The Spider King because he wove many intricate plots lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel cunning rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fled to his banner whilst constitutionalists reviled him as a rapacious totalitarian murderer. In <em>Images of Kingship in Early Modern France</em> Adrianna Bakos uses the changing nature of Louis XI's historical reputation to explore the intellectual and political climate of early modern France.<br> Using Louis XI's historical reputation as a prism for fresh investigation Adrianna Bakos offers new more complex interpretations of the ideological landscape of early modern France. <em>Images of Kingship in Early Modern France</em> is an important contribution to European historiography and to debates on historical versus political interpretations of Kingship.</p>