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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815455303321

Autore

Randall Michael <1953->

Titolo

The gargantuan polity : on the individual and the community in the French Renaissance / / Michael Randall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9274-X

1-4426-8815-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

944/.025

Soggetti

Individualism - France - History - 16th century

Renaissance - France

French literature - 16th century - History and criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

France Civilization 1328-1600

France Intellectual life 16th century

France Politics and government 1328-1589

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Barthelemy de Chasseneuz and the top-down polity -- Rabelais and the ideal imperfect polity -- The death of consensual politics and the individual in Agrippa d'Aubigne.

Sommario/riassunto

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.