The gargantuan polity : on the individual and the community in the French Renaissance / Michael Randall.
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TextLanguage: English, French, French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442688155
- 1442688157
- 9781442692749
- 144269274X
- Individualism -- France -- History -- 16th century
- Renaissance -- France
- French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
- France -- Civilization -- 1328-1600
- France -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
- France -- Politics and government -- 1328-1589
- Individualisme -- France -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Littérature française -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Renaissance -- France
- France -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle
- France -- Civilisation -- 1328-1600
- France -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1328-1589
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French
- Civilization
- French literature
- Individualism
- Intellectual life
- Politics and government
- Renaissance
- France
- 1328-1600
- 944/.025 22
- DC33.3 .R36 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-361) and index.
Bottom-up vs top-down polities : the Council and the Pope -- The representation of Basel in Chants Royaux written for the Puy de Rouen -- Late-medieval polity and poetics : Jean Molinet's Ressource du petit peuple -- The Kings two portraits in Claude de Seyssel and Guillaume Cretin -- Barthélemy de Chasseneuz and the top-down polity -- Rabelais and the ideal imperfect polity -- The death of consensual politics and the individual in Agrippa d'Aubigné.
Includes some text in French and Middle French.
Print version record.
The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects.
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