The Dauphin and the Peace During the Civil War in the Kingdom of France. "Pax infusa" and "pax acquisita" in Christine de Pizan’s Political Theory

  • Juliana Eva Rodriguez Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina (CONICET)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/thel.82414
Keywords: Christine de Pizan, peace policy, royal pedagogy, royal grace, prophetic peace

Abstract

During the Hundred Years’ War and the civil war in France, every social group speak about peace, invoke peace and preach about peace. It is precisely in this context that Christine de Pizan writes her Livre de la Paix (1412-1414), dedicated to the young heir to the throne of France, Louis of Guyenne. The present article aims to examine the concept of peace as an act by the Dauphin that De Pizan develops in this book, using two central topics: peace as a prophetic fact and the preservation of peace as a fact of government. In this sense, miracle and pedagogy are the two crucial processes of a theory of governability, to be used by the heirs to the French throne who pursue the construction and strengthening of a monarchical state.

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Juliana Eva Rodriguez, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina (CONICET)

Juliana Eva Rodriguez has a PhD in History and Civilisation from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His main research deals with the link between politics and ecclesiology in France of the late XIVth and early XVth centuries. She is specialist in the political and religious work of Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), but her field of analysis extends to another writers of the time, such as Jean Gerson (1363-1429) and Nicolas Oresme (1323-1382). Her Phd thesis entitled "Une "architectonique" du pouvoir. Christine de Pizan et la construction du royaume de France au bas Moyen Âge" was directed by Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS-EHESS). The dissertation was submitted to an international jury: Claude Gauvard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Michelle Szkilnik (Université Sorbonne-nouvelle), Isabel Iribarren (Université Marc Bloch), Lidia Amor (UBA-CONICET) y Sebastián Provvidente (UBA-CONICET).

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Published
2023-05-29
How to Cite
Rodriguez J. E. (2023). The Dauphin and the Peace During the Civil War in the Kingdom of France. "Pax infusa" and "pax acquisita" in Christine de Pizan’s Political Theory. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 38(1), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.5209/thel.82414
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Vol. 38 No. 1 (2023)
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