The Gargantuan Polity: On the Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance

by 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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802098142
• ISBN13: 9780802098146
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher