Emma Claussen

Politics and 'Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France (eBook, ePUB)

A Conceptual History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique', in both sixteenth-century and contemporary French, refers to the theory and practice of politics - 'la politique' - and the statesman or politician - 'le politique' - who theorised and practised this art. The term became invested with significance and danger in early modern France. Its mobilisation in dialogues, treatises, debates, and polemics of the French Wars of Religion was a crucial feature of sixteenth-century experiences of the political. Emma Claussen investigates questions of language and power over the course of a tumultuous century, when politics, emerging as a discipline in its own right, seemed to offer a solution to civil discord but could be fatally dangerous in the wrong hands. By placing this important term in the context of early modern political, doctrinal and intellectual debates, Emma Claussen demonstrates how politics can be understood in relation to the wider linguistic and conceptual struggles of the age, and in turn influenced them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108945219
• Artikelnr.: 62747108

Autorenporträt

Emma Claussen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in French at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Politique Problem: 1. Politics and politique; 2. Pre
histories and word histories; Part II. c. 1568
78: 3. Wise politiques? Jean Bodin and Loys Le Roy; 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; Part III. c. 1588
94: 6. Strange meetings: the dialogue d'entre le Maheustre et le Manant, and La Satyre Ménippée.