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Marriage in seventeenth-century English political thought
- Title
- Marriage in seventeenth-century English political thought / Belinda Roberts Peters.
- Author
- Peters, Belinda Roberts, 1952-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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- Description
- ix, 243 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Marriage was, in the first half of the seventeenth century, an important metaphor for the special political and religious standing of England, defining the contract between king and kingdom and uniting conceptions of authority in household and polity. Within this theoretical perspective, the liberties of the king's subjects were also associated with their marital rights, and royal tyranny was defined as usurpation of the authority of husbands. With the execution of Charles I, these links would be broken. By the early 1650s, contracts of political government would bear little resemblance to marriage, save in the highly contested work of Thomas Hobbes. And though manyRestoration radicals would grant subjects' liberties to 'fathers of families', marriage no longer held a special place in any theoretical perspective."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1600-1714
- Marriage > Political aspects > England
- Marriage > England > History > 17th century
- Despotism > England > History > 17th century
- Monarchy > England > History > 17th century
- Political obligation > History > 17th century
- Social contract > History > 17th century
- Despotism
- Marriage
- Monarchy
- Political obligation
- Politics and government
- Social contract
- Huwelijk (sacrament)
- Politieke ideeën
- Verplichtingen
- Sociaal contract
- Monarchie
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-231) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Marriage contract as political contract -- "Union is a marriage" -- "A mutuall covenant betwixt king and people" -- "From Adam's having bin alone" -- Part II: Subjection in oeconomy and polity -- "Life, liberty, and dower" -- "All natural power is in those which obey" -- "Life, liberty, and estate" -- Part III: Tyranny, chastity and liberty -- "As David's dealing with Uriah" -- "Taking you a wife for his own lusts" -- "His wife, said he, his wife! O fatall sound!"
- ISBN
- 1403920362
- 9781403920362
- LCCN
- 2004044684
- OCLC
- ocm54843843
- 54843843
- SCSB-14699945
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library