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VIRTUE,LIBERTY,ANDTOLERATION BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE 1 — #1 The New Synthese Historical Library TextsandStudiesintheHistoryofPhilosophy VOLUME63 ManagingEditor: SimoKnuuttila,UniversityofHelsinki AssociateEditors: DanielElliotGarber,PrincetonUniversity RichardSorabji,UniversityofLondon EditorialConsultants: JanA.Aertsen,Thomas-Institut,UniversitätzuKöln RogerAriew,VirginiaPolytechnicInstitute E.JenniferAshworth,UniversityofWaterloo MichaelAyers,WadhamCollege,Oxford GailFine,CornellUniversity R.J.Hankinson,UniversityofTexas JaakkoHintikka,BostonUniversity PaulHoffman,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside DavidKonstan,BrownUniversity RichardH.Kraut,NorthwesternUniversity,Evanston AlaindeLibera,UniversitédeGenève JohnE.Murdoch,HarvardUniversity DavidFateNorton,McGillUniversity LucaObertello,UniversitàdegliStudidigenova EleonoreStump,St.LouisUniversity AllenWood,StanfordUniversity Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedattheendofthevolume. BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE 2 — #2 VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND TOLERATION Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800 Editedby JACQUELINEBROADANDKARENGREEN MonashUniversity,Melbourne,VIC,Australia BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE 3 — #3 AC.I.P.CataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. ISBN978-1-4020-5894-3(HB) ISBN978-1-4020-5895-0(e-book) PublishedbySpringer, P.O.Box17,3300AADordrecht,TheNetherlands. www.springer.com Printedonacid-freepaper AllRightsReserved ©2007Springer Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming, recordingorotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher,withtheexception ofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingentered andexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE 4 — #4 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 v BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE v — #5 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS XI.KeepingAheadoftheEnglish?ADefenceofJews byCornélieWouters,BaronessofVasse(1790) 171 CarrieF.Klaus Bibliography 189 Index 205 BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE vi — #6 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 vii BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE vii — #7 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. ix BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE ix — #9 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 xi BROAD: “FM” — 2007/5/23 — 21:01 — PAGE xi — #11
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