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  • Record Number: 46047
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Christine de Pizan
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  • Title: Christine de Pizan on the Virtues of Toleration
  • Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.  Edited by Eugene Smelyansky.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 180 - 187.
  • Description: In these three excerpts from The Book of the Body Politic, Christine de Pizan discusses the relationship among the three estates (princes, knights and people), the third rank of people (artisans) and "simple laborers of the earth."
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Body in Literature Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Corps de Policie Political Science Social Groups
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Related Resources: The text is from The Book of the Body Politic, trans. Kate Langdon Forhan (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 90-91, 107-09.
  • Author's Affiliation: Washington State University [Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487506124 (hbk); 9781487524128 (pbk); 9781487533342 (ePub); 9781487533335 (PDF)