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Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as well. It promotes the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility.
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.
- Christine de Pizan
- 1994
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.
When The Book of the Body Politic was written between late 1404 and 1407, France was hovering on the brink of civil war. The intricate and complicated struggle between the French and the English commonly called the Hundred years War (1337–1453) was an extension of the conflict between these two developing nations that had begun in the twelfth ...
Body politic. The frontispiece of Hobbes's Leviathan shows a body formed of multitudinous citizens, surmounted by a king's head. [1] The body politic is a polity —such as a city, realm, or state —considered metaphorically as a physical body.
Christine de Pizan’s Book of the Body Politic (1406–1407) is the first political treatise to have been written not just by a woman, but by a woman capable of holding her own in a normally male domain.
2 de dic. de 2021 · Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as...
