Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth / Anna K. Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Anna K., 1978- author.

Series:

Ideas in context.

Ideas in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Europe--History.

Sex role.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-77118-1

1-108-77438-5

1-108-76540-8