Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth
Published on 31. October 2019
284 pages
978-1-108-77438-3 (ISBN)
Description
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, Niccolo 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.
Reviews / Votes
'Becker offers a convincing argument regarding the perceived political nature of the domestic sphere in the Renaissance.' Yael Manes, Journal of the History of Philosophy 'Becker has made a strong case for redefining what 'politics' meant in the Renaissance, and her book will offer rich stimulation to anyone interested in Renaissance thought, the reception of the classical tradition, and its multiple transformations on the threshold of political modernity.' Sara Miglietti, Intellectual History ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Worked examples or Exercises
File size
3,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-77438-3 (9781108774383)
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Anna Becker
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth
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Content
Introduction; 1. The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought; 2. Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion; 3. Jean Bodin and the politics of the family; 4. Inclusions and exclusions; 5. Sovereign men and subjugated women: the invention of a tradition; Conclusion: from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.
