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Send us a text The poet of Joan of Arc, and a notable example of a female writer in the premodern period, Christine de Pizan took a turn at the popular humanist genre of the mirror to princes in her book "The Book of the Body Politics." Jonathan and Ryan take a look at her characterization of virtue, corporal punishment, and what it takes to educate a Caesar. Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO Christine de Pizan's The Book of the Body Politic: https://booksho...

