This volume contains the political writings of Sir Robert Filmer
(1588-1653), an acute defender of absolute monarchy and perhaps the most
important patriarchal political theorist of the seventeenth century. The
recent explosion of interest in women's history and the history of the
family has greatly enhanced the audience for Filmer's work, and in this
new edition Johann Sommerville provides accurate and accessible texts of
his principal writings, accompanied by all the standard series features,
including a concise introduction, chronology, guide to further reading
and notes on Filmer's own text.