03981nam 2200697 450 991045678670332120200520144314.01-4426-8815-710.3138/9781442688155(CKB)2550000000019372(OCoLC)647920994(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382083(SSID)ssj0000478335(PQKBManifestationID)11325341(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478335(PQKBWorkID)10434736(PQKB)11075176(CaPaEBR)430783(CaBNvSL)slc00224403(MiAaPQ)EBC3268298(MiAaPQ)EBC4672594(DE-B1597)465312(OCoLC)1013963724(OCoLC)944176745(DE-B1597)9781442688155(Au-PeEL)EBL4672594(CaPaEBR)ebr11258255(EXLCZ)99255000000001937220160923h20082008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe gargantuan polity on the individual and the community in the French Renaissance /Michael RandallToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2008.©20081 online resource (393 p.) 0-8020-9814-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Polities: The Council and the Pope -- 2. The Representation of Basel in Chants Royaux Written for the Puy de Rouen -- 3. Late-Medieval Polity and Poetics: Jean Molinet's Ressource du petit peuple -- 4. The King's Two Portraits in Claude de Seyssel and Guillaume Cretin -- 5. Barthélemy de Chasseneuz and the Top-Down Polity -- 6. Rabelais and the Ideal Imperfect Polity -- 7. The Death of Consensual Politics and the Individual in Agrippa d'Aubigné -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexCritics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. 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. Noting how the relationship between rulers and individuals changed with the rise of absolute monarchy, Michael Randall provides significant insight into Renaissance culture and politics by showing how individuals went from being understood in terms of their objective relations with the community to subjective beings. By studying this evolution, he challenges the argument that subjectivity enabled modern political autonomy to come into existence, and instead argues that subjectivity might have disempowered the outwardly directed and highly political individuals of the late Middle Ages. A profound and detailed study of one of the most drastic periods of change, The Gargantuan Polity will be of interest to scholars of French literature, the Renaissance, and intellectual history.IndividualismFranceHistory16th centuryRenaissanceFranceFrench literature16th centuryHistory and criticismFranceCivilization1328-1600FranceIntellectual life16th centuryFrancePolitics and government1328-1589Electronic books.IndividualismHistoryRenaissanceFrench literatureHistory and criticism.944/.025Randall Michael1953-919279MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456786703321The gargantuan polity2061777UNINA