Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth, Anna K. Becker
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Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth, Anna K. Becker
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eng
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index present
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non fiction
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Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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1132426441
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Anna K. Becker
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Ideas in contextCambridge books online
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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, 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.--, Provided by publisher
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