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's well-known text shows a firm grasp on the obstacles arrayed against improving the education of girls. She opens on the unreasonable power of custom, specifically the barbarous custom to breed Women low, which...
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1542: David Clapham translated Henry Cornelius...
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1542
David Clapham
translated Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
's treatise De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, as Treatise on the Nobility of Womankind.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2
Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius Agrippa von. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Translator Rabil, Albert, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1652: A new translation of von Nettesheim's De...
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1652
A new translation of von Nettesheim
's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, appeared: The Glory of Women.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2
1670: Henry Care translated von Nettesheim's De...
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1670
Henry Care
translated von Nettesheim
's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, as Female Pre-eminence; or, The Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male; this was the third English translation.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2
Texts
Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius Agrippa von. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Translator Rabil, Albert, University of Chicago Press, 1996.