Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought
Belinda Roberts Peters
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."
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Année:
2004
Langue:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
1403920362
ISBN 13:
9781403920362
Fichier:
PDF, 669 KB
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english, 2004