Excellence And Nobility Of Women

Name: Excellence And Nobility Of Women
Brand: Iter Press

Iter Press

The first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author.\nJehan Baptista Houwaert\u2019s Excellence and Nobility of Women constitutes the eighth book of his Plain of the Nine Muses, or The Pleasure Garden of Virtuous Women (1582\u20131583), an immense conduct book for women in rhymed verse based on the many querelle texts of the French and Burgundian tradition but especially, in its French translation, on the pathbreaking Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex (1529) by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Like its model, Houwaert\u2019s work asserts not merely the equality but the superiority of women. It is unique in that it is addressed not to a wealthy noblewoman or princess, as were most such defenses, but more democratically to the \u201Cgirls, unmarried women,\n\nThe Excellence and Nobility of Women \u2013 A Defense of Women (1582\u20131583) for the Women of Belgica. A Bilingual Edition\nA Defense of Women (1582\u20131583) for the Wome;