Renaissance Quarterly, June 22nd, 2003
Henry Kamen. Philip V of Spain: The King who Reigned Twice.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii + 277 pp. + 10 b/w pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-300-08718-7.
Philip V (1683-1746), grandson of Louis XIV and first Bourbon king of Spain, has attracted only modest scholarly interest, and this is the first modern biography in English. Henry Kamen aims to rehabilitate the reputation of the king, who has been variously dismissed as lazy, inept, and dominated by his queens. He succeeds in sketching a more fully-rounded portrait of Philip V, without quite...
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