UID:
almafu_9960119246902883
Format:
1 online resource (xli, 113 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-04166-2
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0-511-81667-7
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Uniform Title:
Livre du corps de policie.
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Cambridge Platonists: philosophy at mid century -- Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers -- Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus: a note on seventeenth-century Anglican apologetics -- Latitudinarians, neoplatonists, and the ancient wisdom -- Cudworth, More and the mechanical analogy -- Cudworth and Hobbes on Is and Ought -- The Restoration settlement -- Latitudinarianism and toleration: historical myth versus political history -- The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature: Gassendi's voluntarism and Boyle's physico-theological project -- Latitudinarianism and the "ideology" of the early Royal Society: Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered -- Locke and the latitude-men: ignorance as a ground of toleration -- John Locke and latitudinarianism -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-42259-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-41050-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816673
