The Gargantuan Polity

Author : Michael Randall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144269274X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargantuan Polity written by Michael Randall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michael Randall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098142
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargantuan Polity written by Michael Randall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 1052 pages
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Author : Bernd Renner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460233
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to François Rabelais written by Bernd Renner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nicholas Henry
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Author : Neal Asher
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597805165
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polity Agent written by Neal Asher and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien ‘Maker’ back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down – because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes . . . and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.

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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Author : John J. Harrigan
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780673398482
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Author : Nicholas Henry
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780133606782
Total Pages : 584 pages
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