This edition of "The Instruction of a Christen Woman" is the first to provide the modern reader with the complete text of the single most influential book in Tudor England concerning women and how they should live their lives. "The Instruction of a Christen Woman", Richard Hyrde's translation of the seminal pedagogical treatise by the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, was first published circa 1529. An animated text, by turns cajoling, serene, and enraged, "The Instruction of a Christen Woman" presents a systematic discussion of the behavior, dress, speech, diet, movement, and reading materials appropriate to a woman at various stages of her life, as maid, wife, and widow. Capturing the era's conflicted ideas about women and perhaps reflecting Vives' own discomfort as a converted Jew within European Christianity, the English version of the treatise is an essential document for the study of women in Tudor England. In April 1523 Vives dedicated his Latin handbook of "rules and preceptes to lyve by" to his countrywoman Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, presenting it as a model for the education of her daughter, the Princess Mary. Coming to England soon after Vives was offered a post at Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey. Soon a favorite at the court of Henry and Catherine, Vives established a strong friendship with Thomas More, in whose household he may have met Richard Hyrde, translator of the work. This old-spelling edition of "The Instruction of a Christen Woman" includes a substantial introduction that sets the book within its biographical and a historical contexts and establishing its history as a printed text in eight succeeding sixteenth-century editions that reflect the social, religious, and political changes of that age.
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"The most popular conduct book for women during the Tudor period, in the translation most widely read in sixteenth-century England, becomes available for the first time in this important modern edition. Capacious in its introduction and wide-ranging in its commentary, this book is crucial in helping us understand the lives of early modern women." -- Valerie Wayne, editor of Edmund Tilney's The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage
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Fabius Quintilian in his boke where he doth instruct and teche an oratour, wylleth his begynnyng and entrance to be taken from the cradell, and no tyme to be slacked unapplyed toward thende and purpose of the faculte entended: Nowe moche more diligence ought to be gyven in a Christen virgine, that we may both enfurme her encreace and ordre hit and her instruction and entryng, and that by and by from the mylke: whiche I wolde, if it were possible, shulde be the mothers: And the same counsaile gyveth Plutarche and Phavorine, and many other of the wysest and greattest philosophers. Read the first page
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Fabius Quintilian in his boke where he doth instruct and teche an oratour, wylleth his begynnyng and entrance to be taken from the cradell, and no tyme to be slacked unapplyed toward thende and purpose of the faculte entended: Nowe moche more diligence ought to be gyven in a Christen virgine, that we may both enfurme her encreace and ordre hit and her instruction and entryng, and that by and by from the mylke: whiche I wolde, if it were possible, shulde be the mothers: And the same counsaile gyveth Plutarche and Phavorine, and many other of the wysest and greattest philosophers. Read the first page
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