Jacques Coeur Entrepreneur and King's Bursar (Library of World Biography Series)

by Reyerson, Kathryn L.

• ISBN13: 9780321085375
• ISBN10: 032108537X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This biography traces the career of Frenchman Jacques Coeur, royal official, merchant, and financier, amidst war and exploration in Fifteenth-Century Europe, and invites readers to consider Coeur's career against a broad historical context. The titles in theLibrary of World Biographyseries make ideal supplements for World History survey courses or other courses in the history curriculum where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of World history, and relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This biography traces the career of Jacques Coeur as a royal official, merchant, bursar, a supply officer catering to the needs of the royal household, and powerful financier to Charles the VII (1422-1461), amidst war and exploration in Fifteenth-Century Europe, and invites the reader to consider Coeur's career from its high point as one of the richest and most powerful men in France to his startling downfall, disgrace, and banishment against the broad historical background of the Fifteenth Century, a transitional time between the traditional medieval period and the early modern era.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
Author's Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
I The Transitional Fifteenth Century	11	(18)
II Childhood and Family in Bourges	29	(14)
III Career Beginnings (1420's-1440's)	43	(24)
IV Commercial Success (1440's)	67	(26)
V Finance and Diplomacy (1440's)	93	(18)
VI The Fruits of Enterprise (1440's)	111	(18)
VII Fall from Grace (1451-1455)	129	(24)
VIII Exile, Crusade, and Death (1455-1456)	153	(10)
Conclusions	163	(8)
A Note on the Sources	171	(12)
Glossary	183	(6)
A Note on Medieval Money	189
Index	I-1