Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Standard Name: Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius Agrippa von

Used Form: Henry Cornelius Agrippa

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Intertextuality and Influence	Bathsua Makin	BM '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...

Timeline

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.

1652

A new translation of von Nettesheim 's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, appeared: The Glory of Women.

1670

Henry Care translatedvon 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.

Texts

Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius Agrippa von. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Translator Rabil, Albert, University of Chicago Press, 1996.