Part II - The Masculine Republic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2021
Summary
The first half of this book has argued that the Roman past provided significant models of manliness and of masculine failure for early Stuart Englishmen. Classical histories, political treatises, and imaginative writings frequently portrayed idealised images of masculinity through stories of men excellent in the activities of war and of governance in the commonwealth and household, and they simultaneously underscored masculine failure and tyranny as the inadequate or vicious performance of men in these realms.
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- The Rule of ManhoodTyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660, pp. 219 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020