🎧 The Emperor: The extraordinary Charles V
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 46m
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Suzannah Lipscomb delves into the fascinating life and career of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), who ruled Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America.
Suzannah is joined by Professor Geoffrey Parker, one of the world’s leading historians of early modern Europe. He has examined countless surviving written sources, interrogating every dimension of Charles’s long reign, to produce an epic, detailed and vivid life of a complex man and his rule over the world's first transatlantic empire.
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