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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 15 September 1994

    • ISBN 9780521422598
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages162 pages
    • Size 213x137x15 mm
    • Weight 230 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Medieval social/political theory from Christine de Pizan, France's first female professional writer.

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    Long description:

    Christine de Pizan was born in Venice and raised in Paris at the court of Charles V of France. Widowed at the age of twenty-five, she turned to writing as a source of comfort and income, and went on to produce a remarkable series of books, including poetry, politics, chivalry, warfare, religion and philosophy. She is considered to be France's first female professional writer. This was the first translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan's major political work, The Book of the Body Politic. Written during the Hundred Years' War, it discusses the education and behaviour appropriate for princes, nobility and common people, so that all classes can understand their responsibilities towards society as a whole. A product of a time of civil unrest, The Book of the Body Politic offers a medieval political theory of interdependence and social responsibility from the perspective of an educated woman.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; Note on the text; Principal events in Christine de Pizan's life; Bibliography; The Book of the Body Politic; Part 1. On Princes: Part 2. On Nobles and Knights: Part 3. On the Common People: Glossary.

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