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Pages: 161
Authors: Symphorien Champier
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First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier's The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the French Renaissance version of the querelle des femmes, the
A Virtuous Woman
Language: en
Pages: 129
Authors: Kaye Gibbons
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-12 - Publisher: Algonquin Books

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Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack w
Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing
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Authors: Jennifer H. Oliver
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted w
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Lyndan Warner
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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferio
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Language: en
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Authors: Henricus Cornelius Agrippa
Categories: Social Science
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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