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100 1 _aMaulde-La-Clavière, R. de
_q(René),
_d1848-1902
240 1 4 _aLes femmes de la Renaissance. English
245 1 4 _aThe women of the Renaissance
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aTranslation of Les femmes de la Renaissance.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-19
508 _aTim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The women of the Renaissance" by R. de Maulde-La-Clavière is a historical study written in the late 19th century. It explores how women in Renaissance Italy and France steered culture and morals, charting an early feminist movement rooted in idealized love, beauty, and salon influence rather than laws or suffrage. Through social history and lively anecdote, it examines family structures, education, platonism, and women’s political, intellectual, and religious impact. The opening of the book sets the stage with contemporary praise and a translator’s note highlighting the author’s scholarly wit and Renaissance expertise, then frames the “woman question” amid modern confusion about education, marriage, and public role. The preamble proposes learning from the past, contrasting Anglo-Saxon “masculinism” with Latin “feminism,” and points to the Renaissance as a comparable age of transition. The introduction locates the movement’s origin in Italy, where women became the “motive force” of society—countering war and the power of money, revitalizing a tired religious and intellectual climate, and elevating life through beauty, love, and platonist ideals; France at first resisted these Italian ideas, then absorbed them. At the start of Book I, marriage appears as a practical contract wholly distinct from love: fathers negotiate, brides are married young (often betrothed in childhood), and grooms approach the step fatalistically. Anecdotes (from courts like Urbino and figures such as Michelangelo and Raphael) underscore the calculations, dowries, and family interests that govern matches. Weddings are lavish public displays that heighten family prestige, but behind the pageantry the marital reality is bluntly prosaic, affirming the book’s thesis that Renaissance “feminism” emerged not through legal change but through women’s spiritual and social agency outside the marriage bargain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900
653 _aRenaissance
653 _aWomen -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
653 _aFeminism -- Italy -- History
653 _aFeminism -- France -- History
700 1 _aEly, George Herbert,
_d1866-1958
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/womenofrenaissan00maul
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77508
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