The Excellence and Nobility of Women : A Defense of Women (1582–1583) for the Women of Belgica. A Bilingual Edition
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1649591403
ISBN-13
9781649591401
Publisher
Iter Press
Imprint
Iter Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 20th, 2025
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Product Classification:
History
Ksh 8,300.00
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The first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author. Jehan Baptista Houwaert’s Excellence and Nobility of Women constitutes the eighth book of his Plain of the Nine Muses, or The Pleasure Garden of Virtuous Women (1582–1583), 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’s 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 “girls, unmarried women, wives, and widows of Belgica”—all of them!
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