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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2019
      January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108765404
      9781108487054
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765404
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 282 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (123)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (123)
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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.

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    ‘Becker offers a convincing argument regarding the perceived political nature of the domestic sphere in the Renaissance.’

    Yael Manes Source: Journal of the History of Philosophy

    ‘Becker has made a strong case for redefining what ‘politics’ meant in the Renaissance, and her book will offer rich stimulation to anyone interested in Renaissance thought, the reception of the classical tradition, and its multiple transformations on the threshold of political modernity.’

    Sara Miglietti Source: Intellectual History Review

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