Jamie A. Gianoutsos

The Rule of Manhood

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781108746243
• ISBN-10: 1108746241
• Artikelnr.: 69927223

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.