De officio mariti : introduction, critical edition, translation and notes

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De officio mariti : introduction, critical edition, translation and notes

J.L. Vives ; edited by C. Fantazzi

(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.

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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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