The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual
(Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series Series)
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"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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226858146
ISBN13:9780226858142
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:374 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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