In Allegorical Bodies, Daisy Delogu examines how gendered literary and legal language articulated new concepts of France and Frenchness during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380–1422).

Introduction

1. Allegory Is a Woman

2. From douce France to the dame renommée: Figuring the French Body Politic

3. Jean Gerson and the University of Paris

4. Envisioning the Body Politic before and after the Treaty of Troyes

Coda: What to Say about Joan of Arc?

Daisy Delogu is an associate professor of French literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.