论政治体

ChristinedePizanwasborninVeniceandraisedinParisatthecourtofCharlesVofFrance,Widowedattheageoftwenty-five,sheturnedtowritingasasourceofcomfortandincome,andwentontoproducearemarkalbeseriesofbooks,onsubjectsincludingpoetry,chivalrywarfare,religionandphilosophy,SheisconsideredtobeFrancesfustfemaleprofessionalwiriter.ThisisthefusttranslationintomodemEnglishofChristinedePizansmajorpoliticalwork,TheBookoftheBodyPolitic.WrittenduringtheHundredYearsWar,itdiscussestheeducationandbehaviorappropriateforprinces,nobilityandcommonpeople,sothatallclassescanunderstandtheirresponsibilitiestowardssocietyasawholeAproductofatimeofcivilunrest,theBookoftheBodyPoliticoffersamedievalpoliticaltheoryofinterdependenceandsocialresponsibilityfromtheprespectiveofaneducatedwoman.KATELANGDONFORHANisAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceatSienaCollege.Sheistheauthorofanumberofarticlesonthedevelopmentofmedievalpoliticaklthoughtand,withCaryJ.Nederman,ofMedievaklPoliticalTheory-AReader:TheQuestfortheBodyPolitic,1100-1400(1993).