Title Politics and "politiques" in sixteenth-century France : a conceptual history / Emma Claussen, University of Cambridge

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 282 pages) : illustrations Series Ideas in context Ideas in context. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Part I The Politique Problem -- Chapter 1 Politics and Politiques -- Histories of Politics -- Histories of Politiques -- Approaches -- Methods -- Sources -- Politics and Politiques -- Chapter 2 Pre-Histories and Word Histories -- Weeds in the Garden of France -- Origins -- Between Philosophers and Princes before 1550: Budé and Rabelais -- Politiques in Dialogue(s) c. 1550-68: Le Caron, Pasquier, L'Hospital -- La Noue and Montaigne: Surviving Fragments -- Part II C. 1568-78 -- Chapter 3 Wise Politiques? Jean Bodin and Loys Le Roy -- The République and the Politiques d'Aristote -- Introducing La Science Politique -- Aristotle's Politiques? -- Prudent Politiques -- Bodin's Sages Politiques -- Politique Self-Fashioning -- Chapter 4 A Wake-Up Call and A Call to Arms: Le reveille-matin des François and Simon Goulart's Mémoires de l'estat de France -- The Borrowers: The Reveille-matin and the Mémoires -- The Politique's Wake-Up Call -- Le Politique contre Machiavel -- The Politique Reader, between Liberty and Servitude -- Memory and Projection: The Politique Agent -- Part III C. 1588-94 -- Chapter 5 'What Is This Monster?' The 'Bad' Politique -- Mixed Merchandise: A Proliferation of Politiques -- The 'Bad' Politique -- Mixed Messages -- Politique Manners -- The Politique Body -- The Politique Monster -- Chapter 6 Strange Meeting: The Dialogue d'entre le Maheustre et le Manant, and the Satyre ménippée -- Dialogue and Satire -- Naming, Renaming, and Redescribing: 'Our Friends, Whom You Call Politiques' -- Redescription and Resistance -- Redescription/Conversion -- 'The Politiques Who Distort Meaning' -- Redescribing Borders -- Conclusion -- Bibliography Manuscript Primary Sources -- Archives nationales de France (AN) -- Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Internet Sources -- Lectures -- 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021) Subject Political science -- France -- History -- 16th century Political science -- France -- Philosophy Political science Political science -- Philosophy France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020055290 ISBN 9781108928335 1108928331 110894597X 9781108933582 1108933580 9781108945974 9781108945219 110894521X

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