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HEALING THE BODY POLITIC The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan __________________ DISPUTATIO EDITORIAL BOARD Georgiana Donavin (Westminster College) Cary J. Nederman (Texas A&M University) Richard Utz (University of Northern Iowa) VOLUME 7 HEALING THE BODY POLITIC The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan Edited by Karen Green and Constant J. Mews H F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Healing the body politic : the political thought of Christine de Pizan. – (Disputatio ; v. 7) 1.Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431 – Political and social views I.Green, Karen II.Mews, C. J. 841.2 ISBN 250351636-X © 2005 Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2005/0095/23 ISBN 2-503-51636-X Printed in the EU on acid–free paper. Eric Hicks In Memoriam Contents Abbreviations ix Introduction xi KAREN GREEN Part I: Imagining the Body Politic The Three Mirrors of Christine de Pizan 1 BARRY COLLETT The Living Body Politic: The Diversification of Organic Metaphors in Nicole Oresme and Christine de Pizan 19 CARY J. NEDERMAN Christinian Politics, the Tavern, and Urban Revolt in Late Medieval France 35 SUSAN J. DUDASH Part II: Prudence and the Art of Government Latin Learning in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix 61 CONSTANT J. MEWS Bartolo da Sassaferrato as a Possible Source for Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix 81 EARL JEFFREY RICHARDS v iii Contents Prudence and Wisdom in Christine de Pizan’s Le livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V 99 MICHAEL RICHARZ On Translating Christine de Pizan as a Philosopher 117 KAREN GREEN Philosophy, the Liberal Arts, and Theology in Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune and Le Livre de l’advision Cristine 139 GLYNNIS M. CROPP Castles in the Air? The Prince as Conceptual Artist 161 JULIA SIMMS HOLDERNESS Part III: Mediating the Peace Moyennerresse de traictié de paix: Christine de Pizan’s Mediators 177 TRACY ADAMS Petit estat vesval: Christine de Pizan’s Grieving Body Politic 201 LOUISE D’ARCENS Christine de Pizan and the Body Politic 227 TSAE LAN LEE DOW Bibliography 245 Contributors 255 Index 259
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