Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought

By Belinda Roberts Peters

Book Overview

This study traces the decline of marriage as a metaphor for political authority, subjection, and tyranny in Seventeenth-century political thought. An image that bound consent and contract with divine right absolutism, and irrevocably connected royal prerogatives with subjects' liberties, its disappearance in the middle decades of the century coincided with the full emergence of patriarchalist and social contract theories. If both these accepted the importance of 'fathers of families', neither would suggest that political government could be comparable to 'marriage'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349514616
• ISBN13: 9781349514618
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"