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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I heavily suggest reading this book alongside Poel, Marc van der. Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations / by Marc van Der Poel. Leiden [etc: Brill, 1997. Agrippa, disciple of Trithemius was a rare defender of the female sex in these days, so all his arguments need to be put in socio-historical context. His own wife perished in the black death plague, as he was desperately attempting to find a cure to this illness as a renown plague-doctor, and with the help of his assistant, supposedly - he found one, yet this is shrouded in legend. The quarantine has me reading weird stuff recommended by Tumblr like this 1529 treatise on the moral and theological superiority of women. Agrippa wrote this for his patroness Margaret of Austria. Agrippa’s basic thesis is that not only are women amazing, but they are in fact better than men, and here’s why. He has the receipts, folks. Sure they include some very atypical interpretations of both the Bible and Classical Literature, but that’s not about to stop our friend Heinrich. Enjoy a few of his reasons with me (and I’m only lightly paraphrasing here): Women are better swimmers Eve was the last of God’s creations. God had to stop with her, because He had hit perfection with Woman and could go no further. Women are just SO PRETTY, therefore they are full of divine glory. Men tend to grow bald in old age, and women don’t. A clear mark of female superiority. Women are clean and men are gross. Just look at the water after each takes a bath. Ew. Christ took the form of a man because Man is more humble, Woman is more noble. Every heresy you ever heard of? A man thought it up. Check mate. There are many stories in the Bible of women who lie, cheat, and even murder, yet are praised for their actions. Conclusion: The wickedness of women is held in higher esteem than the good deeds of men. It is mothers and nurses who teach their children to speak. Lawmakers are wicked for keeping women from preaching, as they clearly did in the Bible. Beyond these and other wonderful reasons for female superiority, Agrippa drops a couple of truth bombs. After listing a series of women poets from antiquity he writes, “yea, except it had been forbidden women to learn letters in these days, even now, as yet might be had women of most famous learning, more excellent in wit than men.” Indeed. How many wonderful books is the world missing because women were not given the right to learn to read and write? So if you are bored and would like to read something that is in no way typical of its time period, then you could do worse than Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and his overwhelming love for women. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A75977.0001.001?view=toc DE LA NOBLEZA Y PREEXCELENCIA DEL SEXO FEMENINO INTRODUCCIÓN Heinrich Cornelio Agrippa von Nettesheim nació en Colonia el 14 de septiembre de 1486. Su padre, Heinrich von Nettesheim, fue un modesto ciudadano de Colonia del que apenas hay noticias, aunque en 1526 el propio Agrippa reclamó el carácter noble de su familia, y sus primeros biógrafos afirmaron que el epíteto "von" indicaba su origen patricio o caballeresco. Los primeros datos fehacientes sobre Agrippa nos remontan al año 1501: tras finalizar sus pretendidos estudios de medicina y leyes en Colonia, con sus escasos quince años, nuestro hombre está enrolado en las tropas de Maximiliano I en calidad de estratega militar, servicio que se prolongaría hasta el año 1506. Fue en ese mismo año cuando Agrippa, abandonando su tierra natal dirigió sus pasos hacia París, para establecer contacto con una sociedad' presidida por Faber Stapulensis, sobrenombre... 1. La naturaleza secreta de esta sociedad es ambigua. Parece que el mismo Agrippa fundó una sociedad secreta, la Sodalitium, entregada a estudios alquímcos, sociedad que algunos han confundido con el círculo de Léfevre. En cualquier caso, y al margen de esta sociedad secreta, los contactos de Agrippa con el entorno editorial de Léfevre en París es indudable. Sobre las sociedades secretas en la época que nos ocupa es interesante la tesis sostenida por F. Yates en La filosofia oculia en la época sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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 really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Agrippa, disciple of Trithemius was a rare defender of the female sex in these days, so all his arguments need to be put in socio-historical context.
His own wife perished in the black death plague, as he was desperately attempting to find a cure to this illness as a renown plague-doctor, and with the help of his assistant, supposedly - he found one, yet this is shrouded in legend. ( )