Politics and "politiques" in sixteenth-century France : a conceptual history

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Title
"Politics and "politiques" in sixteenth-century France : a conceptual history"
Statement of Responsibility
Emma Claussen
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Bibliography: p. 256-277

Includes index

Summary: "This book asks how people understood the concept of politics in sixteenth-century France, and how those who practised it were characterised. Both concept and practitioners were referred to by the same word, politique. I trace written uses of this word as a means of studying shifts in the meaning of the concept and the figure. As much as this is a conceptual history, therefore, it is a textual, and indeed, a literary one. Part of the book's argument is that sixteenth-century literary ideas and processes influenced developments in political thought and practice. It also argues that the word politique and the idea of politics hold a specific place in the literature of the period. The book is about the representation of politics and political actors in writing, the writing of politics, and writing as politics. It treats a diverse corpus, including polemical pamphlets, texts of high political thought, and works more associated with the literary canon such as Montaigne's Essais and the Satyre ménippée"

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