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body politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body. As it is usually applied, the metaphor implies hierarchical leadership and a division of labour, and it carries a strong autocratic or monarchial connotation.
The Body Politic 573 repudiation of the body's joy that concludes so many of Donne's erotic poems. Like Bal, who draws both on concepts from speech act theory and on testimony from rape victims to argue that rape is "hatred . . . spoken by one body into the other" (20), these nimble and passionate essayists make their arguments by
In the first part of this book concerning the instruction of princes, we depicted the aforementioned prince or princes as the head of the body politic, as planned before. Thereafter followed the second part, on the education of nobles and knights, which are the arms and the hands. In this part, with God's help, let us continue with what we can ...
15 de sept. de 1994 · 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.
The Book of the Body Politic - September 1994. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account.
The Book of the Body Politic - September 1994. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account.
Summary. Here begins the second part of this book, which addresses chivalrous nobles. The first chapter describes how these nobles are the arms and hands of the body politic. Having concluded speaking to princes whom we described according to Plutarch as the head of the living image of the body politic and exhorting them to a virtuous life, it ...
