Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

231 Pages·2007·2.825 MB·English

by  Earl Jeffrey Richards (auth.), Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green (eds.)

VIRTUE,LIBERTY,ANDTOLERATION
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The New Synthese Historical Library
TextsandStudiesintheHistoryofPhilosophy
VOLUME63
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VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND
TOLERATION
Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800
Editedby
JACQUELINEBROADANDKARENGREEN
MonashUniversity,Melbourne,VIC,Australia
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ListofIllustrations vii
AcknowledgementsandNoteontheText ix
NotesonContributors xi
Introduction xv
JacquelineBroadandKarenGreen
I.PoliticalThoughtasImprovisation:FemaleRegencyandMariology
inLateMedievalFrenchThought 1
EarlJeffreyRichards
II.PhronesisFeminised:PrudencefromChristinedePizantoElizabethI 23
KarenGreen
III.Catherined’Amboise’sLivredesPrudentset Imprudents:Negotiating
SpaceforFemaleVoicesinPoliticalDiscourse 39
CatherineM.Müller
IV.“MachiavelliinSkirts.”Isabellad’EsteandPolitics 57
CarolynJames
V.LibertyandtheRightofResistance:Women’sPoliticalWritingsofthe
EnglishCivilWarEra 77
JacquelineBroad
VI.MargaretCavendishandtheFalseUniversal 95
HildaL.Smith
VII.TheSocialandPoliticalThoughtofDamarisCudworthMasham 111
ReganPenaluna
VIII.“OurReligionandLiberties”:MaryAstell’sChristianPoliticalPolemics 123
MichalMichelson
IX.Virtue,God,andStoicismintheThoughtofElizabethCarterand
CatharineMacaulay 137
SarahHutton
X.CatharineMacaulayandMaryWollstonecraftontheWill 149
MartinaReuter
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XI.KeepingAheadoftheEnglish?ADefenceofJews
byCornélieWouters,BaronessofVasse(1790) 171
CarrieF.Klaus
Bibliography 189
Index 205
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I.1 BlanchedeCastilleandhersonLouis 7
II.1 AmanuscriptilluminationofPrudence 26
II.2 LouiseofSavoyholdingacompassandthescalesofjustice 30
II.3 ElizabethIbyQuentinMetsystheYounger 33
IV.1 TheParnassusbyAndreaMantegna 64
IV.2 TheExpulsionoftheVicesbyAndreaMantegna 65
IV.3 CoronationofaLadybyLorenzoCosta 66
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Australian Research
Council:theeditorialworkonthisvolumewascompletedaspartofanARC-funded
projectonthehistoryofwomen’spoliticalthought.Wewouldalsoliketothankthe
participantsatourARC-fundedconference,“TowardsaHistoryofWomen’sPolitical
Thought, 1400–1800,” hosted by the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash
University, inJuly2005. Manyoftheessaysinthisvolumewerefirstpresentedat
thisconference.Weareparticularlygratefultoourkey-notespeakersonthatocca-
sion, Sarah Hutton, Catherine Müller, Hilda Smith, and Patricia Springborg. We
arealsogratefulforthegenerousfinancialassistanceoftheFrenchGovernmentin
funding Catherine Müller’s participation, and for the use of theAlliance Française
de Melbourne, organised by Edouard Mornaud. For her terrific work in organis-
ingtheconference,wearegreatlyindebtedtoLisaCurtis–Wendlandt,andfortheir
help on the day, to JeremyAarons andTamsin Green. For their kind permission to
useillustrationsinthisvolume, wethankthePierpontMorganLibrary, NewYork;
the Pinacoteca Nationale, Siena; the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Thanks
arealsoduetooureditorsatSpringer, FloorOostingandIngridvanLaarhoven, as
well as the anonymous reader of the original manuscript. For their meticulous and
invaluableworkonthisvolume,weareespeciallygratefultooureditorialassistants,
NicoleKourosandPatrickSpedding.
JacquelineBroad
KarenGreen
NOTEONTHETEXT
Unless otherwise indicated, all English translations of foreign language quotations
withinthetextaretheauthors’own.
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Jacqueline Broad is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy
andBioethicsatMonashUniversity, Melbourne,Australia. Hermainresearcharea
is the history of early modern women’s philosophy. She is the author of Women
PhilosophersoftheSeventeenthCentury (Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,
2002),andjournalarticlesonMaryAstell,DamarisMasham,andotherearlymod-
ern women. Together with Karen Green, she is currently completing anAustralian
ResearchCouncil-fundedprojectonthehistoryofwomen’spoliticalthought.
KarenGreenisAssociateProfessorinPhilosophyatMonashUniversity,Melbourne,
Australia.ShewaseducatedatMonashUniversityandOxfordUniversity,whereshe
took the BPhil in 1977, and at the University of Sydney where she completed her
PhD in 1983. She is the author of two books, Dummett: Philosophy of Language
(Cambridge: Cambridge Polity Press, 2001) (Key Contemporary Thinkers Series)
andTheWomanofReason:Feminism,HumanismandPoliticalThought(Cambridge:
PolityPress; NewYork: Continuum, 1995). Shehasrecentlyedited, withConstant
J. Mews, Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan
(Turnhout:BrepolsPublishers,2005).
Sarah Hutton is Professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the
UnitedKingdom. ShehasrecentlypublishedAnneConway.AWomanPhilosopher
(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2004).Shehasedited,withAnnaBaldwin,
Platonism and the English Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994)and,withLynetteHunter,Women,ScienceandMedicine1550–1700(Stroud:
SuttonPublishing,1997).ShehasalsoeditedRalphCudworth’sTreatiseConcerning
Eternal and Immutable Morality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
and a revised version of Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s The Conway Letters (Oxford:
OxfordUniversityPress,1992).
CarolynJamesisCassamarcaLecturerintheSchoolofHistoricalStudiesatMonash
University,Melbourne,Australia.Sheistheauthoroftwobooksonthelatefifteenth-
century literary figure, Giovanni Sabadino degliArienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli
Arienti:ALiteraryCareer(Florence:LSOlschki,1996)andTheLettersofGiovanni
SabadinodegliArienti,1481–1510(Florence:LSOlschki/TheUniversityofWestern
Australia,2002).SheispresentlyworkingonanAustralianResearchCouncilfunded
projectontheroleofelitewomenintheearlymodernItalianstate.
CarrieF.KlausisanAssociateProfessorofModernLanguages(French)atDePauw
UniversityinGreencastle,Indiana,intheUnitedStates.SheearnedaPhDinFrench
fromtheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaignin2000.ArecipientofaBourse
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