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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
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.
The body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop's fable of "The Belly and the Members".
Christine (de Pisan) Cambridge University Press, Sep 15, 1994 - Education - 113 pages. Christine de Pizan was born in Venice and raised in Paris at the court of Charles V of France.
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 century. Type. Chapter. Information. The Book of the Body Politic , pp. xiii - xxiv.
Article History. Related Topics: political system. 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.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Translation of the Month, October 2022. 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.
