Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-361) and index
Bottom-up vs top-down polities : the Council and the Pope -- The representation of Basel in Chants Royaux written for the Puy de Rouen -- Late-medieval polity and poetics : Jean Molinet's Ressource du petit peuple -- The Kings two portraits in Claude de Seyssel and Guillaume Cretin -- Barthélemy de Chasseneuz and the top-down polity -- Rabelais and the ideal imperfect polity -- The death of consensual politics and the individual in Agrippa d'Aubigné
