Christine de pizan biography of mahatma

  • Christine de Pizan, born in in Venice, Italy, embarked on a path that would challenge the conventions of the late medieval period.
  • Binding: Hardcover · Publisher: Reaktion Books · Genre: Biography & Autobiography · ISBN: · Pages:
  • Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule.

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    Sources for the History of Western Civilization: Volume Two: From the Reformation to the Present, Third Edition

    Preface to the First Edition
    Preface to the Third Edition
    Introduction for Students&#x;

    How to Analyze a Primary Source&#x;

    1 Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Body Politic

    2 Desiderius Erasmus, Letters
     To Anne of Borselle, Marchioness of Veer
    To Jacobus Battus
    To Pope Leo
    To Lambertus Grunnius
    Lambertus Grunnius&#x;s Reply
    To Cardinal Wolsey
    To Henry Bullock

    3 Martin Luther, Letters
     To George Spalatin
    To Paul Speratus
    To George Spalatin
    To Wolfgang Reissenbusch
    To George Spalatin

    4 Articles of the Catholic Leaue

    5 Book Twelve of The Florentine Codex

    6 Michel de Montaigne, Essays
     On Cannibals
     That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity

    7 Sir Edward Coke, The Petition of Right

    8 The Code Noir

    9 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

    10 Isaac Newton, The Principia

    11 Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs

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    How Utopia shaped the world

    Tom Hodgkinson

    Features correspondent

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    In the nearly years since its publication, Thomas More’s Utopia has influenced everything from the thinking of Gandhi to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, writes Tom Hodgkinson.

    An English lawyer, statesman, writer and saint, Thomas More was a strange character. Born in , he was progressive in some ways (he educated his daughters to a very high level) while also clinging to archaic customs (he wore hair shirts). An establishment figure, he was also an enemy of the Protestant Reformation and is known today as a Catholic martyr, having been beheaded by King Henry VIII.

    Today, though, we may know More best for his invention of a word – and for his development of an idea that would be exported around the world. This concept would shape books, philosophies and political movements as varied as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Mahatma Gandhi’s doctrine of passive resistance and the founding of the sta