The Gargantuan Polity
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The Gargantuan Polity
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Author : Michael Randall
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-11-18
The Gargantuan Polity written by Michael Randall and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 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.
Rabelais S Contempt For Fortune
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Author : Timothy Haglund
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-11-19
Rabelais S Contempt For Fortune written by Timothy Haglund and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-19 with Political Science categories.
Francois Rabelais wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel at the height of the Renaissance, when top-caliber thinkers aimed to unite the best of freshly rediscovered ancient Greco-Roman theory and practice and transform politics. Through his work, Rabelais offers his unique understanding of ancient philosophy and political thought. This book considers the role of fortune as the key to understanding Rabelais, much in the manner of contemporaries such as Machiavelli. The two could not be more different, however. Throughout his writings, Rabelais attempts to restore respect for the goddess Fortuna through a cheerful restatement of the case for the sober classical attitude toward future things. As Rabelais’s headstrong character Panurge seeks counsel regarding his marriage prospects, various authorities repeatedly warn him that cuckoldry and spousal abuse await. Panurge looks foolhardy during these admonitions. Far from affirming Machiavelli’s instruction, given in chapter 25 of The Prince, to beat fortune like a woman, Rabelais dramatizes Panurge learning that his future femme may beat him. Through this dramatization, Panurge begins to hear the merits of viewing fortune as an intractable part of life that must be shouldered with the proper inner disposition rather than as an object susceptible of human conquest.
Montesquieu S Liberalism And The Problem Of Universal Politics
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Author : Keegan Callanan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-23
Montesquieu S Liberalism And The Problem Of Universal Politics written by Keegan Callanan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Philosophy categories.
Montesquieu's liberalism and critique of universalism in politics, often thought to stand in tension, comprise a coherent philosophical and political project.
French Encounters With The Ottomans 1510 1560
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Author : Pascale Barthe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-20
French Encounters With The Ottomans 1510 1560 written by Pascale Barthe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and the enthusiasm with which, before the age of absolutism, French kings and their subjects pursued exchanges-real or imagined-with those they referred to as the 'Turks.' Barthe calls into question the existence of an Orientalist discourse in the Renaissance, and examines early cross-cultural relations through the lenses of sixteenth-century French literary and cultural production. Informed by insights from historians, literary scholars, and art historians from around the world, this study underscores and challenges long-standing dichotomies (Christians vs. Muslims, West vs. East) as well as reductive periodizations (Middle Ages vs. Renaissance) and compartmentalization of disciplines. Grounded in close readings, it includes discussions of cultural production, specifically visual representations of space and customs. Barthe showcases diplomatic envoys, courtly poets, 'bourgeois', prominent fiction writers, and chroniclers, who all engaged eagerly with the 'Turks' and developed a multiplicity of responses to the Ottomans before the latter became both fashionable and neutralized, and their representation fixed.
The Unbridled Tongue
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Author : Emily Butterworth
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Unbridled Tongue written by Emily Butterworth and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumor in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
A Companion To Fran Ois Rabelais
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Author : Bernd Renner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
A Companion To Fran Ois Rabelais written by Bernd Renner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twenty-two eminent scholars of Early Modernity offer a thorough examination of the art and the main themes of François Rabelais’s work in the larger context of European humanism.
Violence And Honor In Prerevolutionary P Rigord
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Author : Steven G. Reinhardt
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2018
Violence And Honor In Prerevolutionary P Rigord written by Steven G. Reinhardt and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Périgord region in prerevolutionary France.
Publications Of The Modern Language Association Of America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Publications Of The Modern Language Association Of America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philology, Modern categories.
Gargantua And Pantagruel
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Author : François Rabelais
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Gargantua And Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with categories.
First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel. More than four centuries later, the terms "gargantuan" and "Rabelaisian" are synonymous with earthy humor, a surfeit of good food and drink, and pleasures of the flesh. This series of exaggerated fables was condemned upon its initial publication by the censors of the Coll�ge de la Sorbonne. But beneath their bawdy, often scatological wit, the tales bear a deeper significance as the author's defense of daring and groundbreaking ideas. Using his ribald humor, Rabelais addresses timeless issues of education, politics, and philosophy. His parodies of classic authors as well as his own contemporaries offer a hilarious expos� of human folly and an enduring satire of history, literature, religion, and culture.
Politics And Cosmopolitanism In A Global Age
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Author : Sonika Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Politics And Cosmopolitanism In A Global Age written by Sonika Gupta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Political Science categories.
This book offers a unique reconceptualization of cosmopolitanism. It examines several themes that inform politics in a globalized era, including global governance, international law, citizenship, constitutionalism, community, domesticity, territory, sovereignty, and nationalism. The volume explores the specific philosophical and institutional challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community beyond the nation state. It reorients and decolonizes the boundaries of ‘cosmopolitanism’ and questions the contemporary discourse to posit inclusive alternatives. Presenting rich and diverse perspectives from across the world, the volume will interest scholars and students of politics and international relations, political theory, public policy, ethics, and philosophy.