Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540 to 1620University of Illinois Press, 1984 - 364 pagini Impressively examines the relation sixteenth-century controversies about the nature of women have to literature and life. |
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Pagina 108
... equality of essence demands equality of oppor- tunity . This step Plato took , and Tuvil followed him : " As those bodies are most perfect , and fitting for euery action , which can , if occasion require , as well apply their left ...
... equality of essence demands equality of oppor- tunity . This step Plato took , and Tuvil followed him : " As those bodies are most perfect , and fitting for euery action , which can , if occasion require , as well apply their left ...
Pagina 129
... equality . And few accepted the doctrine of equality at all . A primary barrier to belief in sexual equality was Christian doctrine ... The fabric of society was Christian , and the Renaissance typically ( and not without reason ) ...
... equality . And few accepted the doctrine of equality at all . A primary barrier to belief in sexual equality was Christian doctrine ... The fabric of society was Christian , and the Renaissance typically ( and not without reason ) ...
Pagina 131
... equality . Just as the Renaissance could not conceive of democ- racy as other than mob rule , so the idea of marital equality was foreign , strange , hardly capable of entering the mind . And this extended to all relationships between ...
... equality . Just as the Renaissance could not conceive of democ- racy as other than mob rule , so the idea of marital equality was foreign , strange , hardly capable of entering the mind . And this extended to all relationships between ...
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Exordium | 1 |
THE FORMAL CONTROVERSY | 11 |
The Early Tudor Controversy | 18 |
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