ISBN:
9781108765404
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 261 pages)
Series Statement:
Ideas in context
DDC:
305.3094
Keywords:
Frau
;
Mann
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Renaissance
;
Europa
Abstract:
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 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765404
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