Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth

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Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth

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Anna K. Becker

Creator

• Becker, Anna K., 1978-

Subject

• Renaissance -- Europe
• Sex role -- Europe -- History

Language

eng

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, Niccol o 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.--

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Ideas in context
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks