ISBN:
9780226858142
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (375 p.)
Series Statement:
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
Series Statement:
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
Parallel Title:
Print version The Education of a Christian Woman : A Sixteenth-Century Manual
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Christian women ; Conduct of life ; Early works to 1800
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Christian women ; Education ; Early works to 1800
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"From meetings and conversation with men, love affairs arise. In the midst of pleasures, banquets, dances, laughter, and self-indulgence, Venus and her son Cupid reign supreme. . . . Poor young girl, if you emerge from these encounters a captive prey! How much better it would have been to remain at home or to have broken a leg of the body rather than of the mind!" So wrote the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives in a famous work dedicated to Henry VIII's daughter, Princess Mary, but intended for a wider audience interested in the education of women.Praised by Erasmus and Thomas
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Key to Abbreviations; Introduction: Prelude to the Other Voice in Vives; A Note on the Text; Preface to the Books on the Education of a Christian Woman; Book I: Which Treats of Unmarried Young Women; Book II: Which Treats of Married Women; Book III: On Widows; Appendix; Biblical References Index; General Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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