De officio mariti : introduction, critical edition, translation and notes
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De officio mariti : introduction, critical edition, translation and notes
(Selected works of J.L. Vives / general editor, C. Matheeussen, v. 8)
Brill, 2006
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This treatise is a sequel to Vives' On the Education of the Christian Woman, published in Brill's series, Selected Works of J.L. Vives. It studies the institution of marriage from a male vantage point, with interesting observations on female psychology, anticipating his later work, De anima. Vives insists more here on the weakness and instability of the woman than in the previous treatise, relying on the biological tenets of Aristotle and Galen. Much attention is given to the choice of a wife and to the husband's role as tutor of his spouse and disciplinarian. The marriage debt is regarded as a necessary evil, as in St. Paul, while the spirituality of the union is exalted. The book was often printed together with the De institutione feminae Christianae and even considered as a fourth book of that work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Prefatory Remarks
II. Brief Synthesis and Comparison with De institutione feminae Christianae
III. Revisions in the 1538 Edition
IV. Editions and Constitution of the Text
V. Translations
VI. Abbreviations Used in the Introduction and Notes
Sigla
DE OFFICIO MARITI
Praefatio
Cap. I. De coniugii origine et utilitate
Cap. II. De eligenda uxore
Cap. III. De accessu ad coniugium
Cap. IV. De disciplina feminae
Cap. V. De domo
Cap. VI. De externis
Cap. VII. De cultu
Cap. VIII. De absentia mariti
Cap. IX. De reprehensione et castigatione
Cap. X. De progressu in coniugio
Cap. XI. Quas utilitates affert amor conjugum mutuus
Cap. XII. De iis quae non habet liberos
Cap. XIII. De uxore natu grandiore
Index nominum
Index locorum
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