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Autore: | Randall Michael <1953-> |
Titolo: | The gargantuan polity : on the individual and the community in the French Renaissance / / Michael Randall |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
©2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina: | 944/.025 |
Soggetto topico: | Individualism - France - History - 16th century |
Renaissance - France | |
French literature - 16th century - History and criticism | |
Soggetto geografico: | France Civilization 1328-1600 |
France Intellectual life 16th century | |
France Politics and government 1328-1589 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. | |
Electronic books. | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The gargantuan polity |
ISBN: | 1-4426-9274-X |
1-4426-8815-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781118303321 |
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