TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randall,Michael
TI  - The gargantuan polity: on the individual and the community in the French Renaissance 
SN  - 9781442688155
AV  - DC33.3 .R36 2008eb
U1  - 944/.025 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Individualism
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Individualisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Littérature française
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1328-1600
KW  - 1328-1589
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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