The Field of Cloth of Gold
Five hundred years ago, in a spirit of rivalry and cooperation, two young Renaissance monarchs asserted their power and authority at one of the last great demonstrations of the chivalric age.
Glenn Richardson
The Greatest French King
The life and personality of Francis I.
The Contending Kingdoms of France and England: 1066-1904
Glenn Richardson looks at almost nine hundred years of enmity, jealousy and mutual fascination, a hundred years after the Entente Cordiale.
Anne de Montmorency: Great Master, Great Survivor
Glenn Richardson explores the talents and fortune of the 16th-century French courtier who served five kings.
Charles V - Universal Soldier
To mark the quincentenary of the birth in 1500 of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Glenn Richardson examines the emperor's ambitions and achievements.
Louis XII of France: The Unlikely Lad
To mark the quincentenary of Louis Xll's accession in 1498, Glenn Richardson examines the French king's reign and suggests significant points of comparison with Henry Vll of England.
Good Friends and Brothers? Francis I and Henry VIII
Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.