{"product_id":"sir-robert-filmer-15881653-and-the-patriotic-monarch-9780719099182","title":"Sir Robert Filmer 15881653 and the Patriotic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuttica’s book offers an accessible guide to Filmer’s thought useful for students of intellectual history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuttica’s book is a very good case study, which hopefully will change the perception of Filmer’s theory, which until now has been seen through the lenses of its critic, John Locke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this splendid study, Cesare Cuttica uses contextual and biographical methods to enhance our understanding of Sir Robert Filmer's intellectual life and his contribution to political debates in seventeenth-century England.\u003cbr\u003eThis book can be highly recommended and deserves to be widely read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCesare Cuttica’s work is the most comprehensive and convincing criticism of such an interpretation. \u003cbr\u003eThis is undoubtedly a brilliant study of Filmer’s political thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extremely rich book is a major contribution to our knowledge of Filmer , and more broadly of patriarchy in the seventeenth century , primarily in England.\u003cbr\u003e[Pierre Lurbe; RSEAA XVII-XVIII 70 (2013)]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuttica succeeds in presenting his reader with innovative, clear and well-argued information based on his contextualisation and biographical methods. In this way, he provides the reader with new insights and contributes significantly to our understanding of seventeenth-century English intellectual and political history. It is a major contribution to current studies of political thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...Cuttica has given us a Filmer with a new significance, and that itself is an unexpected and most welcomed contribution.\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003e1. Filmer: his life and cultural interests\t\t   \u003cbr\u003e2. From Kent with anger: Patriarcha versus Thomas Scott’s country patriotism\u003cbr\u003e3. Filmer’s patriarchalism versus Jesuit political ideas \u003cbr\u003e4. Filmer’s patriarchalism in context: ‘popularity’, King James VI and I, Parliament and monarchists\u003cbr\u003e5. Writing in the early Caroline regime and the issue of Patriarcha’s non-publication\u003cbr\u003e6. Filmer in the 1640s and 1650s: political troubles and intellectual activism\u003cbr\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e7. Publishing in the Exclusion Crisis (1679-81): Patriarcha between fatherhood and fatherland     \u003cbr\u003e8. Much ado about nothing? Edmund Bohun’s rehabilitation of Patriarcha, the issue of allegiance and Adamite anti-republicanism \u003cbr\u003e9. Patriarchalism versus patriotism in practice: Patriarcha from the Rye House Plot (1683) to the Glorious Revolution (1688-89)\t\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\t\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\t\t\t\t\t        \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037356720471,"sku":"9780719099182","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719099182.jpg?v=1750935425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sir-robert-filmer-15881653-and-the-patriotic-monarch-9780719099182","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}