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Suggested reading and resources
Charles V and his Reign
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Willem Pieter Blockmans, Emperor
Charles V, 1500-1558 (London,
Arnold, 2002).
Translated from Dutch; its author
specializes in the late medieval Burgundian Low Countries.
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Karl Brandi, Emperor
Charles V (London, Jonathan
Cape, 1939).
English translation by C.V. Wedgwood from the 1938 German
edition; also issued in New York, Knopf, 1939. This is
the classic study, which has since been reprinted several
times in paperback. It somewhat romanticizes Charles.
In 1941 appeared a second German edition, Kaiser Karl
V, 2 vols. (Munich, 1941), with the second volume containing
documentary source materials.
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Manuel Fernández Álvarez, Charles V: Elected Emperor and Hereditary Ruler (London, Thames & Hudson,
1977).
A Spanish perspective.
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Otto von Habsburg, Charles
V (New York, Praeger,
1970).
Charles’s descendent sees him as an emperor for
Europe.
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Harald Kleinschmidt, Charles
V: The World Emperor (Stroud,
UK, Sutton, 2004).
A an author who has written on global topics.
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William S. Maltby, The
Reign of Charles V (New
York, Palgrave, 2002).
An easy introduction.
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Roger B. Merriman, The
Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and the New,
vol. III, “The Emperor” (1925).
A broad, detailed survey focused on Spain and the Americas.
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Peter Pierson, “Carolus
V Imperator the Ruler” in
a booklet boxed with the lavishly illustrated main volume,
Pedro Navascués Palacio, ed, Carolus V Imperator
(Barcelona & Madrid, Lunwerg, 1999), titled “Carlos
V, Gobernante.”
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M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, The
Changing Face of Empire (Cambridge,
1988).
An important study of the transition from Charles V to
his son Philip II of Spain.
Charles V, His Court and Patronage of the Arts
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Volker Press, “Imperial
Court of the Habsburgs.” in Ronald G. Asch &
Adolf M. Birke, eds, Princes,
Patronage and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning
of the Modernm Age, 1450-1650 (New York, Oxford, 1991)
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Glyn Redworth and Fernando Checa,
“The Courts of the Spanish Habsburgs 1500-1700”
in John Adamson, ed., The
Princely Courts of Europe 1550-1750 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991)
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Earl E. Rosenthal, The
Palace of Charles V in Granada (Princeton,
1985)
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Marie Tanner, The
Last Descendant of Aeneas; the Habsburgs and the Mythic
Image of the Emperor (New
Haven, Yale, 1993).
The Habsburg mystique.
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H. R. Trevor-Roper, Princes
and Artists: Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Counts (New York, Harper, 1976), Chapter
One.
The Spanish Empire
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Henry Kamen, Empire:
How Spain Became a World Power 1492-1763 (New York, Harper Collins, 2003),
Chapters 1-3.
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Anthony Pagden, Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination (New Haven and London, Yale, 1990).
A wide-ranging study in which the early pages treat Charles
V’s period.
The Reformation Era
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Lewis W. Spitz, The
Protestant Reformation, 1517-1559 (New
York, Harper & Row, 1985).
Makes the religious issues central. |
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