

Emperor
A New Life of Charles V
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Unabridged: 26 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 06/11/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, European History
Synopsis
Geoffrey Parker, one of the world's leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. He explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles's achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler's life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles's reign and views the world through the emperor's own eyes.