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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.
- 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.
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...
The French court writer Christine de Pizan discussed the concept at length in her Book of the Body Politic (1407). The idea of the body politic, rendered in legal terms through corporation theory, also drew natural comparison to the theological concept of the church as a corpus mysticum, the mystical body of Christ.
The medieval apogee of the metaphor was attained in Livre du corps de policie (c. 1407; The Book of the Body Politic), by the French poet and author Christine de Pisan, the first female professional writer of France.
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
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 ...
Rooted in the mind-set of medieval Christendom, it heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. The Book of the Body Politic resounds still today, urging the need for probity in public life and the importance of responsibilities as well as rights.
