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Author Cuttica, Cesare, author.

Title Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch : patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought / Cesare Cuttica
Published Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Contents Part I -- 1 Filmer: his life and cultural interests 21 -- 2 From Kent with anger: Patriarcha versus Thomas Scott's country patriotism 51 -- 3 Filmer's patriarchalism versus Jesuit political ideas 91 -- 4 Filmer's patriarchalism in context: 'popularity', King James VI and I, Parliament and monarchists 104 -- 5 Writing in the early Caroline regime and the issue of Patriarcha's non-publication 143 -- 6 Filmer in the 1640s and 1650s: political troubles and intellectual activism 161 -- Part II -- 7 Publishing in the Exclusion Crisis (1679-81): Patriarcha between fatherhood and fatherland 187 -- 8 Much ado about nothing? Edmund Bohun's rehabilitation of Patriarcha, the issue of allegiance and Adamite anti-republicanism 212 -- 9 Patriarchalism versus patriotism in practice: Patriarcha from the Rye House Plot (1683) to the Glorious Revolution (1688-89) 231
Summary This volume looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index
Notes English
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Subject Filmer, Robert, 1588?-1653.
SUBJECT Filmer, Robert, 1588?-1653 fast
Filmer, Robert 1588-1653 gnd
Subject Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Monarchy
Politisches Denken
Patriarchalismus
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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