Emperor Charles V: Monarch and Man. An Experience of Ideological-Psychological Biography

This book reconstructs the biography of Charles V of Habsburg (1500–1558) from historical, ideological, and psychological perspectives. The multifaceted focus of the research allows not only to uncover new horizons of source synthesis within the framework of historical anthropology but also to reinterpret the facts describing the actions of the "great emperor" over four decades of reign. In addition to Charles V, readers will meet members of his family, ministers, diplomats, chroniclers, as well as a whole array of figures from European historical thought of the 20th and 21st centuries, who attempted to recreate the "imperial idea" of the monarch from the perspective of intellectual history.