Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

by Anna Becker

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 Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110848705X
• ISBN13: 9781108487054
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"