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Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 1-7

  3. Marriage Contract as Political Contract

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. “Union is a marriage”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 11-32

    3. “A mutuall covenant betwixt King and people”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 33-54

    4. “From Adam’s having bin alone”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 55-73

  4. Subjection in Oeconomy and Polity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. “Life, Liberty and Dower”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 77-97

    3. “All natural power is in those which obey”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 98-122

    4. “Life, Liberty and Estate”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 123-140

  5. Tyranny, Chastity and Liberty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. “As David’s dealing with Uriah”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 143-162

    3. “Taking you a wife for his own lusts”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 163-183

    4. “His Wife, said he, his Wife! O fatall sound!”

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 184-199

    5. Conclusion

      • Belinda Roberts Peters
      Pages 200-203

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 204-243
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About this book

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'.

About the author

BELINDA ROBERTS PETERS received her PhD in history from the University of California at Irvine in 1996, and taught courses in European culture and society, gender, and women's history at several southern California colleges, including California State University at San Marcos. She is beginning a project on seventeenth-century women's autobiography.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought

  • Authors: Belinda Roberts Peters

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504776

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-2036-2Published: 08 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51461-8Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50477-6Published: 08 September 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 243

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, Political History

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