INQ-271 | Rabelais

Full Title: Rabelais as Standardbearer of Late Medieval and Early Print Cultures

Topic Description:

An investigation into the evolution of thought and culture of the late Medieval and Early Modern humanist writer/publisher/physician/clergyman François Rabelais as seen through his major literary works. Using knowledge of a work of literature to reconstruct a worldview, evaluate that worldview/contrast on grounds of realism/utopianism/literary value. What is unique about this author’s world(view)?

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: December 2010