Law, Ethics, and Politics

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Christine de Pizan Society; Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR); Scientia Project (France)

Organizer Name

Benjamin M. Semple, Bernard Ribémont

Organizer Affiliation

Gonzaga Univ., Univ. d’Orléans

Presider Name

Susan J. Dudash

Presider Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Paper Title 1

Christine, Novella, and the "Rights of Women"

Presenter 1 Name

Bernard Ribémont

Paper Title 2

Christine’s Concept of Justice and Jean Gerson’s Arbor justitiae

Presenter 2 Name

Earl Jeffrey Richards

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Bergische Univ. Wuppertal

Paper Title 3

Christine, Greco-Arabica, and the Law

Presenter 3 Name

David Joseph Wrisley

Presenter 3 Affiliation

American Univ. of Beirut

Start Date

10-5-2013 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 211

Description

"Law, Ethics and Politics," addresses three major interconnected topics in Christine de Pizan's thought and writing: the codified legal system as a matrix for the analysis and evaluation of human behavior, the concepts of ethics and justice that are brought to bear on the legal system (either to legitimate or critique it), and the political realm as a field where the real and the ideal are mediated.

Benjamin Semple