The Gargantuan Polity : : On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance / / Michael Randall.
Critics 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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Index