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Subject(s)

• Sex role—Europe—History [Browse]
• Renaissance [Browse]

Series

Ideas in context [More in this series]

Summary note

"This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna K. Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought
• Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion
• Jean Bodin and the politics of the family
• Inclusions and exclusions
• Sovereign men and subjugated women. The invention of a tradition
• Conclusion : from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.

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ISBN

• 9781108487054 (hardcover)
• 110848705X (hardcover)
• 9781108732130 (paperback)
• 1108732135 (paperback)

LCCN

2019017864

OCLC

1112804368

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