Catherine de Medici (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. Renaissance-Era French Court Intrigue, 16th?Century Politics, Romance, and the Wars of Religion【電子書籍】[ Honor? de Balzac ]

＜p＞Balzac's Catherine de Medici, a triptych within La Com?die humaine, reconstructs the Valois court through a blend of documentary citation and high drama. Set amid the Wars of Religion, it follows the queen mother's calculations among Guises, Bourbons, and Huguenot chiefs, her recourse to astrologers like the Ruggieri, and the workings of raison d'?tat. Rather than sensationalize episodes like St. Bartholomew's Eve, Balzac weighs motives, evidence, and constraint. Writing under the July Monarchy, Balzacーa monarchist and master of social realismーsought to correct what he saw as liberal caricatures of Catherine. He scoured memoirs and archives to argue that policy, not cruelty, governed her choices. His fascination with esoteric sciences, evident in S?raphita and Louis Lambert, intersects here with the historical queen's astrologers to probe the psychology of rule. Readers interested in early modern politics, religious conflict, and the evolution of historical fiction will find a rigor．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る