dc.contributor.author |
Rechtschaffen, Tracy |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-03-28T00:56:19Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2009 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Journal of Medieval History 35:375-389 2009 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0304-4181 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/15759 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Although the general historical context of Christine de Pizan’s Livre du corps de policie (LCP), the Orleanist-Burgundian feud occasioned by the periodic insanity of King Charles VI, has long been recognised, the precise argument that the author wages through her unique configuration of the third part of the body politic has not been explored. This essay reads the LCP as an intervention into the escalating struggle for power between Charles VI’s brother, the duke of Orleans, and his cousin, the duke of Burgundy. Christine’s purpose emerges most clearly in her peculiar arrangement of the third part of her body politic, le peuple, where two points bear particular consideration: her inclusion of the University and her division of the ‘merchants’ across two separate categories, a repartition which seems to refer to the contemporary distinction between the highly-placed merchants of Paris and the butchers. Christine seems to be arguing that if the University were to make common cause with the ruling burghers and well-placed merchants, they could force into submission their more restless brothers and sisters, the butchers and their thuggish followers, whom the duke of Burgundy would finally convince to rise up in 1413 in what has become known as the Cabochian Revolt. |
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dc.publisher |
Elsevier Ltd. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Journal of Medieval History |
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dc.rights |
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Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0304-4181/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
The Political Significance of Christine de Pizan's Third Estate in the Livre du corps de policie |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.08.001 |
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pubs.begin-page |
375 |
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pubs.volume |
35 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Elsevier Ltd. |
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pubs.end-page |
389 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
92367 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Cultures, Languages & Linguist |
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pubs.org-id |
European Lang and Literature |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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