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- Title
Three Faces of Richelieu: A Historiographical Essay.
- Authors
BERGIN, JOSEPH
- Abstract
This article explores the different views of Richelieu to be found in three different cultures, those of Spain, Germany and England (to which America is added). It begins with the perceptions of Richelieu among his contemporaries and how these evolved in subsequent centuries. The figure of Richelieu has fascinated biographers, novelists and playwrights, whose work influenced wider historical judgements of the Cardinal. In recent times, historians have sought to overcome the different stereotypes that abounded in previous centuries and, in German and Anglo-Saxon scholarship, fresh and as yet unreconciled facets of Richelieu and his historical significance continue to emerge, providing the basis for a rather different portrait of the man.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SPAIN; UNITED Kingdom; RICHELIEU, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642; HISTORIOGRAPHY; CARDINALS (Clergy); STEREOTYPES; HISTORY
- Publication
French History, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 4, p517
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crp070