Peter Burke Books
The fabrication of Louis XIV
By Peter Burke
"Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internation...
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The Renaissance, Second Edition
By Peter Burke
In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-conciously modern and easily separable from the Middle Ages. He empha...
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