J.L. Vives: de Officio Mariti

Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation, and Notes
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15404-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Latin, Englisch, Band 8, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Selected Works of Juan Luis Vives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vives, Juan Luis

Fantazzi, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles E. Fantazzi, Ph.D. (1964) in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities at East Carolina University. He has recently published Angelo Poliziano, Silvae, in I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press, 2004).