Woman Of Nobility

Author : Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226505503

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The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men by Lucrezia Marinella Pdf

A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects. This polemic displays Marinella's vast knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Trying to effect real social change, Marinella argued that morally, intellectually, and in many other ways, women are superior to men.

Author : Rosemary Griggs
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800466111

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A Woman of Noble Wit by Rosemary Griggs Pdf

Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh’s mother. This is her story.

Author : Moderata Fonte
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226256832

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The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte Pdf

Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555–92), a Venetian woman who was something of an anomaly. Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered "masculine"—the chivalric romance and the literary dialogue. This work takes the form of the latter, with Fonte creating a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen. The dialogue explores nearly every aspect of women's experience in both theoretical and practical terms. These women, who differ in age and experience, take as their broad theme men's curious hostility toward women and possible cures for it. Through this witty and ambitious work, Fonte seeks to elevate women's status to that of men, arguing that women have the same innate abilities as men and, when similarly educated, prove their equals. Through this dialogue, Fonte provides a picture of the private and public lives of Renaissance women, ruminating on their roles in the home, in society, and in the arts. A fine example of Renaissance vernacular literature, this book is also a testament to the enduring issues that women face, including the attempt to reconcile femininity with ambition.

Author : Nina Kathryn Bissett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498283649

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Woman of Nobility by Nina Kathryn Bissett Pdf

In the late 1800s a supremely qualified woman educator and administrator made an unforgettable imprint on well-known missionaries, educators, and preachers. Emma Dryer worked with Pacific Garden Mission's George and Sarah Clarke, Methodist deaconess Lucy Rider Meyer, Wheaton College President Charles Blanchard, Anna Spafford--whose husband wrote the beloved hymn It is Well with My Soul--and many others. However, her greatest achievement came from her divinely guided association with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, with its compelling and far-reaching ministries, would undoubtedly not exist today if not for the driving missionary fervor of Emma Dryer. Her story is finally being told in light of this association. A close examination of her ministry relationship with Mr. Moody reveals the interconnected aspects of their lives from a viewpoint never before written. This includes examining their leadership styles and effectiveness in modern day terms as well as contrasting their learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses as both evangelist and educator. This book represents the first biography of Emma Dryer's life with undying evidence of the answered prayers of a noble and virtuous woman who dedicated her life to serve and honor Christ until his eminent return.

Author : Henricus Cornelius Agrippa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226010601

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Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Pdf

Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.

Author : Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728518

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A Woman's Kingdom by Michelle Lamarche Marrese Pdf

In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society of Imperial Russia, a married woman could neither work nor travel without her husband's permission, and divorce was all but unattainable. Yet, through a detailed analysis of women's property rights from the Petrine era through the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Marrese demonstrates the significance of noblewomen's proprietary power. She concludes that Russian noblewomen were unique not only for the range of property rights available to them, but also for the active exercise of their legal prerogatives.A remarkably broad source base provides a solid foundation for Marrese's conclusions. These sources comprise more than eight thousand transactions from notarial records documenting a variety of property transfers, property disputes brought to the Senate, noble family papers, and a vast memoir literature. A Woman's Kingdom stands as a masterful challenge to the existing, androcentric view of noble society in Russia before Emancipation.

Author : Jennifer C. Ward,Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0719041147

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Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500 by Jennifer C. Ward,Jennifer Ward Pdf

While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a collection of sources for an important and influential group of women in medieval England, and examines changes in their role and activities between 1066 and 1500. For most noble and gentry-women, early marriage led to responsibilities for family and household, and, in the absence of their husbands, for the family estates and retainers. Widowhood enabled them to take control of their affairs and to play an independent part in the local community and sometimes further afield. Although many women's lives followed a conventional pattern, great variety existed within family relationships, and individuality can also be seen in religious practices and patronage. Piety could take a number of different forms, whether a woman became a nun, a vowess or a noted philanthropist and benefactor to religious institutions. This volume provides a broad-ranging and accessible coverage of the role of noble women in medieval society. It highlights the significant role played by these women within their families, households, estates and communities.

Author : Geoffrey Bocca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Nobility
ISBN : OCLC:704933352

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The Woman who Would be Queen by Geoffrey Bocca Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112897

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Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500 by Jennifer Ward Pdf

While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a collection of sources for an important and influential group of women in medieval England, and examines changes in their role and activities between 1066 and 1500. For most noble and gentry-women, early marriage led to responsibilities for family and household, and, in the absence of their husbands, for the family estates and retainers. Widowhood enabled them to take control of their affairs and to play an independent part in the local community and sometimes further afield. Although many women's lives followed a conventional pattern, great variety existed within family relationships, and individuality can also be seen in religious practices and patronage. Piety could take a number of different forms, whether a woman became a nun, a vowess or a noted philanthropist and benefactor to religious institutions. This volume provides a broad-ranging and accessible coverage of the role of noble women in medieval society. It highlights the significant role played by these women within their families, households, estates and communities.

Author : Frances Gies,Joseph Gies
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 006464037X

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Women in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies,Joseph Gies Pdf

Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--"Choice" Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Gemma Hollman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750993500

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Royal Witches by Gemma Hollman Pdf

'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.

Author : Jennifer C. Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gentry
ISBN : 0719041155

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Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500 by Jennifer C. Ward Pdf

Jennifer Ward's recent book on later medieval English noblewomen argued convincingly the importance of those women's roles in shaping and structuring their world. In the present volume, she adds new dimensions to her work. She goes back further in time, situating changes as well as continuities in noblewomen's lives against the nobility's social and political evolution over the centuries from the eleventh to the fifteenth, and, in line with the aims of the series, she opens up the evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, and presents it accessibly to what will surely be a wide audience.

Author : Kezia Noble
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781857827224

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The Noble Art of Seducing Women - My Foolproof Guide to Pulling Any Woman You Want by Kezia Noble Pdf

Have you ever dreamt of becoming an infallible seducer of women? This book tells you everything you need to know, courtesy of the world's only major female PUA (pick-up artist), Kezia Noble! Unknown until a couple of years ago, Kezia was approached by the organisers to attend a PUA class meeting. She gave it to the other attendees straight, not caring if she offended anyone; the men took it on the chin and took her constructive criticisms on board. Within days and weeks they were trying out her suggested techniques and starting to become more successful with women. Kezia returned to the PUA classes and started to make a name for herself. Kezia Noble is the first woman to offer the aspiring pick-up artist advice on how to attract women from a woman's point of view. She now runs many classes and a workshop, and even produces corporate videos on the chemistry of attracting women. Now, in answer to requests from her students, Kezia has written a book on the 15 steps to becoming a master seducer - which will also prove an invaluable aid to men who cannot afford her classes, who work too far away or don't have enough time. The Noble Art of Seducing Women is the first and only sure-fire pick-up guide to be written by a woman. It has the potential to transform a lonely man into someone who need never be single again . . . unless, of course, he wants to be. Kezia Noble works with her students instead of belittling them. As a sensitive and intelligent young woman, she is becoming known as the best PUA in the business...

Author : Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801439116

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A Woman's Kingdom by Michelle Lamarche Marrese Pdf

Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Moderata Fonte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0226256820

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The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte Pdf

"Written in dialogue form, the work purportedly records a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen of widely varying age and experience, whose discussions, though lossely unified around the theme of men's unjustifiable hostility to women and possible cures for it, range over almost every aspects of their lives."--Introduction, p.1.