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Daughters, wives, and widows : writings by men about women and marriage in England, 1500-1640 / edited by Joan Larsen Klein.

Contributor(s): Klein, Joan Larsen, 1931-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: xv, 328 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 025206206X (pbk.); 0252018400 (cloth : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Women -- England -- History -- 16th century | Women -- England -- History -- 17th century | Marriage -- England -- History -- 16th century | Marriage -- England -- History -- 17th century | Women | Gender identity | Marriage | Living arrangementsDDC classification: 305.4/0942/09031 LOC classification: HQ1593 | .D37 1992Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-313) and index.
Contents:
The form of solemnization of matrimony (1559) -- An homily of the state of matrimony (1563) -- Selections from The law's resolutions of women's rights (1632) -- Selections from : In laud and praise of matrimony, trans. Richard Taverner (1536?), and Defense of his declamation in praise of marriage (1519), trans. David Sider (1991) / Erasmus -- The instruction of a Christian woman, trans. Richard Hyrde (1529?), and The office and duty of an husband, trans. Thomas Paynell (1555?) / Juan Luis Vives -- A crystal glass for Christian women (1591) / Philip Stubbes -- Christian economy : or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures, trans. Thomas Pickering (1609) / William Perkins -- The birth of mankind, otherwise named The woman's book, corrected and augmented by Thomas Raynalde (1545) / Eucharius Roeslin -- The points of housewifery (1580) / Thomas Tusser -- Selections from : The English gentlewoman (1631) / Richard Brathwaite -- The complete woman (1639) / Jacques Du Bosc -- The mother's blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-313) and index.

The form of solemnization of matrimony (1559) -- An homily of the state of matrimony (1563) -- Selections from The law's resolutions of women's rights (1632) -- Selections from : In laud and praise of matrimony, trans. Richard Taverner (1536?), and Defense of his declamation in praise of marriage (1519), trans. David Sider (1991) / Erasmus -- The instruction of a Christian woman, trans. Richard Hyrde (1529?), and The office and duty of an husband, trans. Thomas Paynell (1555?) / Juan Luis Vives -- A crystal glass for Christian women (1591) / Philip Stubbes -- Christian economy : or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures, trans. Thomas Pickering (1609) / William Perkins -- The birth of mankind, otherwise named The woman's book, corrected and augmented by Thomas Raynalde (1545) / Eucharius Roeslin -- The points of housewifery (1580) / Thomas Tusser -- Selections from : The English gentlewoman (1631) / Richard Brathwaite -- The complete woman (1639) / Jacques Du Bosc -- The mother's blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh.

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