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Healing the body politic : the political thought of
Christine de Pizan
Edited by Karen Green and Constant J. Mews.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, c2005.
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Book description
Better known today for her mysticism, a significant proportion of Christine
de Pizan's have a significant political content, prompting questions about
the nature and message of female political discourse in early 15th-century
France. Such questions are discussed in these twelve conference papers which
examine in detail the texts of de Pizan, and her contemporaries, to explore
the originality of her political thought, its political and historical
context, her significant inclusion of women in the body politic and her
familiarity with a Latin political tradition stretching back to Cicero and
Aristotle.
Contributors also examine the main themes of Christine's political texts,
especially her focus on the virtue of prudence, a necessary requirement for
rulers, and her relationship with the notoriously imprudent French queen
Isabeau.
About the authors
Associate Professor Karen Green is Head of the School of Philosophy and Bioethics
at Monash University.
Associate Professor Constant Mews is the Director of Centre for the
Study of Religion and Theology at Monash University.
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