The Delirious Patria: Bacchanalia and Civil War in François Hotman’s Francogallia

• In Event: Stasis, Tumults, and Conflagrations: Theorizing Civil Conflict in the History of Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper explores François Hotman’s constitutional theory and account of the causes of civil war through attention to the motifs of bacchanalia, delirium, and dismemberment in his work.

Author

• Nicholas Barden, Georgetown University