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.
| ISBN: | 9781108487054 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2020 |
| Author: | Anna K Becker |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 282 pages |
| Series: | Ideas in Context |
| Genres: |
History and Archaeology European history History of ideas |
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.
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth features in the following genres: History and Archaeology, European history, History of ideas
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth is available in Hardback
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth was written by Anna K Becker and published by Cambridge University Press
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth has 282 pages
Yes it is part of Ideas in Context series
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