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Article: Écriture et pouvoir à l'aube des temps modernes
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- Fifteenth Century Studies
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- January 1, 2008
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Blanchard, Joël, and Jean-Claude Mühlethaler. Ãcriture etpouvoir à l'aube des temps modernes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. Pp. 230.
Printed in the series "Perspectives Littéraires," this important summary of literary analyses of writings on the relationship between texts and political power is both descriptive and prescriptive. At the dawn of modern times, princes and governors should have acquired their power by adapting to existing circumstances. Did these leaders do so?
To find answers to this question, six chapters invite the reader to follow the authors' thoughts about the so-called Mirrors of Princes (didactic); about the writers' function in the political ...