Jamie A Gianoutsos

The Rule of Manhood

Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478830
• ISBN-10: 1108478832
• Artikelnr.: 59917995

Autorenporträt

Jamie A. Gianoutsos is Associate Professor of History at Mount Saint Mary's University, Maryland. She has been a recipient of IHR Mellon Pre-Dissertation, Huntington Library, and Charles Singleton Center Fellowships, and has published articles in History of Education and Renaissance Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Emasculated Kingship: 1. Tyranny, manhood, and the study of
history; 2. A chaste Virginia: tyranny and the corruption of law in
Jacobean England; 3. 'And thus did the wicked sonne murther his wicked
mother': Nero and the tyrannical household in late Jacobean England; 4.
Neronian corruption in Caroline England; Part II. The Masculine Republic:
5. John Milton, marriage, and the realisation of Republican manhood; 6.
'Begin now to know themselves men, and to breath after liberty': Marchamont
Nedham and the Republican empire; 7. 'So much power and piety in one':
Oliver Cromwell and the masculine republic.