Publication: The Heart of Peace: Christine de Pizan and Christian Theology
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2015-09-28
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Gower, Margaret Marion. 2015. The Heart of Peace: Christine de Pizan and Christian Theology. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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This dissertation argues that, across her corpus, Christine de Pizan (c.1364-c.1431) advanced a notion of the common good that is both, and inseparably, political and theological. The project critically analyzes Christine’s theological notions of human personhood, moral formation, prudential self-interest, and destructive preoccupation with personal good. It demonstrates that Christine responded to, retooled, and restructured authoritative texts and traditions in order to compose a constructive notion of the common good. It argues that Christine wrote in the interest of peace in the bodies politic within which she counted herself: France, the Church, and Christendom. It concludes that Christine wrote to form persons for peace.
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Religion, History of, Theology, Literature, Medieval
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