Author: Jacqueline Broad
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402058950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women’s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women’s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women’s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.