{"product_id":"excellence-and-nobility-of-women","title":"On the Excellence and Nobility of Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jehan Baptista Houwaert’s \u003ci\u003eExcellence and Nobility of Women\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes the eighth book of his\u003ci\u003e Plain of the Nine Muses, or The Pleasure Garden of Virtuous Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1582–1583), an immense conduct book for women in rhymed verse based on the many \u003ci\u003equerelle \u003c\/i\u003etexts of the French and Burgundian tradition but especially, in its French translation, on the pathbreaking \u003ci\u003eDeclamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (1529) by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like its model, Houwaert’s work asserts not merely the equality but the superiority of women. It is unique in that it is addressed not to a wealthy noblewoman or princess, as were most such defenses, but more democratically to the “girls, unmarried women, wives, and widows of Belgica”—all of them!\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Iter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283532759384,"sku":"9781649591401","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781649591401_f776dc12-72f2-40c3-81af-d9847b77e367.jpg?v=1778910354","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/excellence-and-nobility-of-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}