Education for women

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Creator(s):
Vives, Juan Luis
Title:
Liure tres bon plaisant et salutaire de linstitution de la femme chrestienne, tant en son enfance, que mariage & viduite: aussi de loffice du mary nagueres co[m]posez en latin par Iehan Loys Viues, & nouuellement traduictz en langue francoyse par Pierre de Changy escuyer; auquel est adioustee de nouueau vne tresbriefue & structeuefe instruction de la vertu dhumilite; auec vne epistre de sainct Bernard touchant le negoce & gouuernement dune maison
Publication/Origin:
[Paris]: Par Iaques Keruer, 1543
Description:
In 1524 Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives published the first text calling for universal education of women (though it was a mix of feminism and misogyny). Dedicated to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the mother of Princess Mary, whom Vives had tutored, by 1600 it had appeared in numerous translations. Vives laid important groundwork for the education of women in the Elizabethan Age. This, the first French edition, was published by Jacques Kerver, son of printer and bookseller Yolande Bonhomme. There are three editions in the collection, two from the sixteenth and one from the seventeenth century.
Citation:
Vives, Juan Luis, Liure tres bon plaisant et salutaire de linstitution de la femme chrestienne, tant en son enfance, que mariage & viduite: aussi de loffice du mary nagueres co[m]posez en latin par Iehan Loys Viues, & nouuellement traduictz en langue francoyse par Pierre de Changy escuyer; auquel est adioustee de nouueau vne tresbriefue & structeuefe instruction de la vertu dhumilite; auec vne epistre de sainct Bernard touchant le negoce & gouuernement dune maison, [Paris]: Par Iaques Keruer, 1543, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 25, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3943