Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth
Hardcover 274 pages English February 29, 2020
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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.
- Author:
- Anna Becker
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- February 29, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 274 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 110848705X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108487054