TY - BOOK ID - 1715685 TI - J.L. Vives: De officio mariti : Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Notes AU - Vives, Juan Luis AU - Fantazzi, Charles PY - 2006 SN - 9004154043 9789004154049 9786611400675 128140067X 9047411056 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Neo-Latin literature KW - Marriage KW - Social ethics KW - Women KW - Education KW - Ethics KW - Social problems KW - Sociology KW - Social ethics. KW - Education of women KW - Women's education KW - Education. KW - Mariage KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1715685 AB - 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. ER -