Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Place of publicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Number of pages274
ISBN (Electronic)9781108765404
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2019
SeriesIdeas in Context
Volume123

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