RENAISSANCE WOMAN: A SOURCEBOOK

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1 RENAISSANCE WOMAN: A SOURCEBOOK Constructions of Femininity in England edited by Kate Aughterson London and New York

2 List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1 THEOLOGY The Bible John Calvin, Sermons The first examination of Ann Askew Certain sermons or homilies Church of England, Canons Thomas Becon, Catechism Sermons: Thomas Adams, Meditations upon the creed William Whately, A bride bush Women preaching: Thomas Edwards, Gangraena Margaret Fell Fox, Women's preaching justified 2 PHYSIOLOGY Aristotle: The history of animals The generation of animals Galen, On the usefulness of the parts of the body Gynacea: Martin Akakia, On women's illnesses Ludovic Mercatus, On the common conditions of women Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives Nicholas Fontanus, The woman's doctor The complete midwife's practice enlarged xi xiii vu

3 3 CONDUCT 67 X Juan Luis Vives, The instruction of a Christian woman 69 The debate on dress: Philip Stubbes, The anatomy of abuses 74 John Rainoldes, The overthrow of stage plays 77 John Williams, A sermon ofapparell 77 X Marital conduct books: X Robert Dod and John Cleaver, A godly form of household 79 government X Henry Smith, A preparative to marriage 82 ^ Richard Brathwait, The English gentlewoman 84 Brides' duties: Samuel Rowlands, The bride 85 ^ William Gouge, Of domestical duties 89 Banabe Rich, My lady's looking glass 95 William Vaughan, The golden grove 96 Dorothy Leigh, The mother's blessing 98 4 SEXUALITY AND MOTHERHOOD 103 Desiderius Erasmus, The woman in childbed 105 X Henry Bullinger, The Christian state of matrimony 106 Eucharius Roesslin, The birth of mankind, otherwise named the 108 woman's book Thomas Becon, The book of matrimony 110 Elizabeth Grymestone, Miscelanea, meditations, memoratives 114 Christopher Newstead, An apology for women: or women's 115 defence Elizabeth Clinton, The Countess of Lincoln's nursery 116 Devotional advice on childbirth: Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons 120 Christopher Hooke, The childbirth 122 Alexander Niccholes, A discourse of marriage and wiving 123 Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives 124 Sarah Jinner, An almanac 127 Jane Sharp, The midwife's book 129 Francesco Barbaro, Directions for love and marriage 130 Aphra Behn, To the fair, Clorinda POLITICS AND LAW 133 Aristotle, Politics 136 viii

4 Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman 137 John Knox, The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous 138 regiment of women John Aylmer, An harborow for faithful and true subjects 140 John Leslie, A defence of the honour of the right high, mighty and 142 noble princess Marie Queen of Scotland X Thomas Smith, The commonwealth of England 144 James I, The true law of free monarchies 145 Xf'Robert Pricke, The doctrine of superiority, and of subjection 147 XWilliam Gouge, Of domestical duties 149 William Perkins, Christian economy 150 William Heale, An apology for women 151 T.E., The law's resolution of women's rights 152 Matthew Griffith, Bethel 157 A true copy of the petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen's 159 wives Robert Filmer, Patriarch a EDUCATION 165 Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman 168 Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquy of the abbot and learned woman 171 Richard Hyrde, Preface 173 Thomas Becon, Catechism 175 Thomas Salter, The mirror of modesty 177 Richard Mulcaster, Positions 178 Bartholomew Batty, The Christian man's closet 182 Elizabeth Jocelyn, The mother's legacy to her unborn child 183 Bathshua Makin, An essay to revive the ancient.education of 186 gentlewomen 7 WORK 193 John Fitzherbert, The book of husbandry 195 Thomas Tusser, A hundred good points of housewifery 198 John Jones, The art and science of preserving body and soul 204 Mary Ward, Letter to Pope Paul V 206 Patrick Hannay, A happy husband 208 John Taylor, The needle's excellency 210 R. Garnet, The book of oaths 212 Preaching work: Sarah Cheevers and Katherine Evans, This is a short relation of 214 some of the cruel sufferings ix

5 Joan Brooksop, An invitation of love 217 Sarah Jinner, An almanac 219 Jane Sharp, The midwife's book 221 Mary Trye, Medicatrix, or the woman-physician 223 Advice to the women and maidens of London 225 WRITING AND SPEAKING 229 Baldassare Castiglione, The courtier 232 Margaret Tyler, The mirror ofprincely deeds and knighthood 233 Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons 236 Philip Stubbes, A crystal glass for Christian women 237 Richard Brathwait, Essays 244 Gervase Markham, The English housewife 246 John Vicars, The schismatic sifted 248 Dorothy Waugh, The lamb's defence against lies 249 Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole, To the priests and people of 250 England Eliza's Babes 253 Sarah Jinner, An almanac 255 Katherine Philips, Poems 256 Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance 258 PROTO-FEMINISMS 261 Cornelius Agrippa, A treatise of the nobility and excellency of 264 woman-kind Jane Anger her protection for women 266 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve deus rex judeaorum 268 Daniel Tuvil, Asylum veneris 269 Rachel Speght, A mouzellfor Melastomus 270 William Austin, Haec homo 277 Jane Owen, An antidote against purgatory 279 To the supreme authority of England, the commons assembled in 280 parliament Eliza's Babes 283 Margaret Cavendish, The philosophical and physical opinions 286 Poulain de la Barre, The woman as good as the man, of the 289 equality of both sexes Notes 291 Select secondary bibliography 299 Index 307