The Female Body Politic: Enacting the Architecture of The Book of the City of Ladies

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1794146

P. Haralambidou

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Abstract

Abstract This visual essay and explanatory text presents my practice-led research focusing on two works by medieval author Christine de Pizan. Conflating the act of writing a book – a thesis against institutional misogyny – with the construction of an imaginary city, the first work, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405, has been seen as a proto-feminist manifesto. I focus on the under-researched architectural and urban allegory depicted in the text, which imagines a utopia inhabited solely by women and constructed for them by a woman and on the manuscript's accompanying illuminations displaying three different stages of the construction of the city. Inspired by Aristotle’s Politics and revisiting the ancient Greek metaphor, by which a state or society and its institutions are conceived of as a biological human body, in The Book of the Body Politic, 1404, de Pizan offers her version of a medieval political theory, which I connect with her allegorical city.

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女性政治体:《贵妇之城》的建筑设计

摘要这篇视觉文章和解释性文本介绍了我以实践为导向的研究，重点是中世纪作家克莉丝汀·德·皮赞的两部作品。第一部作品《女人之城之书》（the book of the city of Ladies，1405）将写书（一篇反对制度性厌女症的论文）与想象中的城市建设相结合，被视为一份原始女权主义宣言。我关注的是文本中描述的研究不足的建筑和城市寓言，它想象了一个只有女性居住、由女性为她们建造的乌托邦，以及手稿中展示城市建设三个不同阶段的照明。受亚里士多德《政治学》的启发，在《身体政治书》（the Book of the body Politic，1404）中，德·皮赞（de Pizan）重新审视了古希腊的隐喻，即一个国家或社会及其机构被视为一个生物人体，她提出了中世纪政治理论的版本，我将其与她的寓言城市联系起来。

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