Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Polities: The Council and the Pope 19
7. 2. The Representation of Basel in Chants Royaux Written for the Puy de Rouen 41
8. 3. Late-Medieval Polity and Poetics: Jean Molinet’s Ressource du petit peuple 84
9. 4. The King’s Two Portraits in Claude de Seyssel and Guillaume Cretin 121
10. 5. Barthélemy de Chasseneuz and the Top-Down Polity 148
11. 6. Rabelais and the Ideal Imperfect Polity 169
12. 7. The Death of Consensual Politics and the Individual in Agrippa d’Aubigné 201
13. Conclusion 241
14. Notes 253
15. Bibliography 341
16. Index 363