Monter, William

A Bewitched Duchy : Lorraine and its dukes, 1477-1736

      DROZ - 9782600011655 Livre usage a l'etat de neuf / Used book as new condition ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### Drawing on basic archival sources in Paris and Vienna as well as those in Lorraine itself, William Monter (Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University and a well-known historian of early modern western Europe) offers the first English-language history of this important European buffer state. From the defeat of Charles the Bold in 1477 to the marriage of its last duke with the Habsburg heiress Maria Theresa 260 years later, the united duchies of Lorraine and Bar straddled both the linguistic and political boundaries between France and the Holy Roman Empire, maintaining a precarious neutrality between them until the Thirty Years War.