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Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch : Patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought /

This book studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unexplored primary material and adopting an innovative contextual approach, Cuttica provides a long-overdue account of an often referre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cuttica, Cesare
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Filmer : his life and cultural interests
  • 2. From Kent with anger : Patriarcha versus Thomas Scott's country patriotism
  • 3. Filmer's patriarchalism versus Jesuit political ideas
  • 4. Filmer's patriarchalism in context : 'popularity', King James VI and I, Parliament and monarchists
  • 5. Writing in the early Caroline regime and the issue of Patriarcha's non-publication
  • 6. Filmer in the 1640s and 1650s : political troubles and intellectual activism
  • 7. Publishing in the Exclusion Crisis (1679-81) : Patriarcha between fatherhood and fatherland
  • 8. Much ado about nothing? Edmund Bohun's rehabilitation of Patriarcha, the issue of allegiance and Adamite anti-republicanism
  • 9. Patriarchalism versus patriotism in practice : Patriarcha from the Rye House Plot (1683) to the Glorious Revolution (1688-89).