LEADER 03981nam 2200697 450 001 9910456786703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8815-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442688155 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019372 035 $a(OCoLC)647920994 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382083 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478335 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325341 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478335 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10434736 035 $a(PQKB)11075176 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430783 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268298 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672594 035 $a(DE-B1597)465312 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963724 035 $a(OCoLC)944176745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442688155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258255 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019372 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe gargantuan polity $eon the individual and the community in the French Renaissance /$fMichael Randall 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$d©2008 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9814-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Polities: The Council and the Pope -- $t2. The Representation of Basel in Chants Royaux Written for the Puy de Rouen -- $t3. Late-Medieval Polity and Poetics: Jean Molinet's Ressource du petit peuple -- $t4. The King's Two Portraits in Claude de Seyssel and Guillaume Cretin -- $t5. Barthélemy de Chasseneuz and the Top-Down Polity -- $t6. Rabelais and the Ideal Imperfect Polity -- $t7. The Death of Consensual Politics and the Individual in Agrippa d'Aubigné -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aCritics 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. 606 $aIndividualism$zFrance$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aRenaissance$zFrance 606 $aFrench literature$y16th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aFrance$xCivilization$y1328-1600 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y16th century 607 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1328-1589 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndividualism$xHistory 615 0$aRenaissance 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a944/.025 700 $aRandall$b Michael$f1953-$0919279 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456786703321 996 $aThe gargantuan polity$92061777 997 $aUNINA