Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth
A pioneering and innovative study that challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2020
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Ideas in context
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Ideas in context |
| Schlagworte: | Sex role Renaissance Sex role-Europe-History Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | A pioneering and innovative study that challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108774383 1108774385 9781108487054 110848705X |