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Abbreviations ix Introduction xi KAREN GREEN Part I: Imagining the Body Politic The Three Mirrors of Christine de Pizan 1 BARRY COLLETT The Living Body Politic: The Diversification of Organic Metaphors in Nicole Oresme and Christine de Pizan 19 CARY J. NEDERMAN Christinian Politics, the Tavern, and Urban Revolt in Late Medieval France 35 SUSAN J. DUDASH Part II: Prudence and the Art of Government Latin Learning in Christine de Pizan's Livre de paix 61 CONSTANT J. MEWS Bartolo da Sassaferrato as a Possible Source for Christine de Pizan's Livre depaix 81 EARL JEFFREY RICHARDS Prudence and Wisdom in Christine de Pizan's Le livre desfais et bonnes meurs du s ge roy Charles V 99 MICHAEL RICHARZ On Translating Christine de Pizan as a Philosopher 117 KAREN GREEN Philosophy, the Liberal Arts, and Theology in Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune and Le Livre de I'advision Cristine 139 GLYNN S M. CROPP Castles in the Air? The Prince as Conceptual Artist 161 JULIA S MMS HOLDERNESS Part III: Mediating the Peace Moyennerr sse de traicti6 de paix: Christine de Pizan's Mediators 177 TRACi ADAMS Petit estat vesval: Christine de Pizan's Grieving Body Politic 201 LOUIS D'ARCENS Christine de Pizan and the Body Politic 227 TSAE I AN LEE DOW Bibliography 245 Contributors 255 Index 259