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Author : Erica Piedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Body Politic in Medieval France written by Erica Piedra and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583554
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Body Politic written by Christine de Pizan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan was born in Venice and raised in Paris at the court of Charles V of France. Widowed at the age of twenty-five, she turned to writing as a source of comfort and income, and went on to produce a remarkable series of books, including poetry, politics, chivalry, warfare, religion and philosophy. She is considered to be France's first female professional writer. 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. 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.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649590527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Book of the Body Politic written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christine de Pizan's 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. It advises not just the prince, as was traditional, but also nobles, knights, and the common people, promoting the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility. Rooted in the mind-set of medieval Christendom, it heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. The Body Politic resounds still today, urging the need for probity in public life and the importance of responsibilities as well as rights"--
Author : Kate Langdon Forhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136123482
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Medieval Political Theory: A Reader written by Kate Langdon Forhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook anthology of important works of political thought revealing the development of ideas from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Includes new translations of both well-known and ignored writers, and an introductory overview.
Author : Daisy Delogu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442622814
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Allegorical Bodies written by Daisy Delogu and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380–1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu’s book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
Author : Ernst Kantorowicz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400880785
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The King's Two Bodies written by Ernst Kantorowicz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma posed by the “King’s two bodies”—the body natural and the body politic—back to the Middle Ages. The king’s natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, as do all humans; however the king’s spiritual body transcends the earth and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, Kantorowicz demonstrates how early modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a political theology. Featuring a new introduction and preface, The King’s Two Bodies is a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.
Author : Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The King's Two Bodies written by Ernst H. Kantorowicz and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204881
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Readings in Medieval Political Theory written by Cary J. Nederman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful collection of sources, now reprinted, which document and commentate on the formation of medieval political culture between the 12th and 14th centuries. Aimed at a non-specialist readership fifteen texts are presented in English translation and in chronological order supported by suggestions for further reading. These include letters and treatises by Bernard of Clairvaux, Marie de France, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, John of Paris, Dante Alighieri, William of Ockham, John Wyclif and Christine de Pizan.
Author : Christopher Allmand
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386900
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France written by Christopher Allmand and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume portray the public life of late medieval France as that country established its position as a leader of western European society in the early modern world. A central theme is the contribution made by contemporary writers, chroniclers and commentators, such as Jean Froissart, William Worcester and Philippe de Commynes, to our understanding of the past. Who were they? What picture of their times did they present? Were their works intended to influence their contemporaries and what success did they enjoy? Other contributions deal with the exercise of political power, the relationship between the court and those in authority in far-flung reaches of the kingdom, and the role and status of the death penalty as deterrent, punishment and means of achieving justice.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649590510
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Book of the Body Politic written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christine de Pizan's 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. It advises not just the prince, as was traditional, but also nobles, knights, and the common people, promoting the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility. Rooted in the mind-set of medieval Christendom, it heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. The Body Politic resounds still today, urging the need for probity in public life and the importance of responsibilities as well as rights"--
Author : Edward Forset
Publisher : Gregg International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Discourse of the Bodies Natural and Politique and A Defence of the Right of Kings written by Edward Forset and published by Gregg International. This book was released on 1606 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Langdon Forhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351746383
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Political Theory of Christine De Pizan written by Kate Langdon Forhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Christine de Pizan held no political office and her work was not influencial on any political theorist living today. However, in the disciplines of women's studies and French literature she has inspired intellectual debate, so much that the two sides of the debate are referred to as Christinophiles and Christinoclasts. This book persents the political paradoxes of Christine de Pizan. She was a woman in a man's world, an Italian at a French court, and the daughter of a civil servant in a world structured by social class. Her corpus of political works include five works designed to educate the male ruling class, two works expressly princesses and a treatise on warfare. The goal of this book is to outline the political theory of Christine de Pizan and situate her ideas within the history of political ideas in general.
Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Healing the Body Politic written by Karen Green and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan (1364-1431) has been recognised as a poet, early humanist and feminist precursor but rarely as political theorist whose works were intended to have a direct impact on the tumultuous politics of her time. The essays in this collection focus on Christine as a political writer and provide an important resource for those wishing to understand her political thought. They locate her political writing in the late medieval tradition, discussing her indebtedness to Aristotle, Aquinas and Augustine as well as her transformations of their thought. They also illuminate Christines political epistemology her understanding of political wisdom as a part of theology, the knowledge of God. New light is thrown on the circumstances which prompted Christine to write on political issues and on her attitude to Isabeau of Bavaria. These essays show that Christines originality consisted in her capacity to modify and feminise the tradition of Christian Aristotelianism through the use of elements of Christian imagery, in particular Mariology, in order to construct an image of the virtuous and prudent monarch which had lost the explicitly manly and warlike character of the Aristotelian phronimos. This reconfigured image of the monarch lent itself to the extension which she developed in her more feminist works, which demonstrated the prudence of women and their capacity, in times of need, to function as authoritative political figures.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048612214X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author : David Rollison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521853737
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Commonwealth of the People written by David Rollison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139504959
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417 written by Joseph Canning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality characteristic of writers in this period. He argues that they used Aristotelian and Augustinian ideas to develop radically new approaches to power and authority, especially in response to political and religious crises. The book examines the disputes between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII and draws upon the writings of Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Bartolus, Baldus and John Wyclif to demonstrate the variety of forms of discourse used in the period. It focuses on the most fundamental problem in the history of political thought - where does legitimate authority lie?
Author : Hans J. Hummer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448544
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe written by Hans J. Hummer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600–1000. Providing a panoramic survey of the sources from the region, which include charters, notarial formulas, royal instruments, and Old High German literature, he untangles the networks of monasteries and kin groups which made up the political landscape of Alsace, and shows the significance of monastic control in shaping that landscape. He also investigates this local structure in light of comparative evidence from other regions. He tracks the emergence of the distinctive local order during the seventh century to its eventual decline in the late tenth century in the face of radical monastic reform. Highly original and well balanced, this 2006 work is of interest to all students of medieval political structures.
