Filmer: 'Patriarcha' and Other WritingsThis 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,