Jousting for Peace
Thomas Penn: Henry VIII meets Francis I, 17 July 2014
The Field of Cloth of Gold
by Glenn Richardson.
Yale, 288 pp., £35, November 2013,978 0 300 14886 2 Show More
by Glenn Richardson.
Yale, 288 pp., £35, November 2013,
“... it did so as usual in alliance with the Habsburgs against its old enemy, France. In the words of Garrett Mattingly, the great diplomatic historian, the Habsburg-Valois wars of the next decades ‘surpassed anything Europe had previously known for extent and destructiveness’. As for the peace process that culminated in the Field of Cloth of Gold, ... ”