Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought [electronic resource] / by Belinda Roberts Peters.
Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230504776 978-0-230-50477-6
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5254
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Fiziksel Niteleme
256 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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'.
