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

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