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Men's Voices - Medieval, Renaissance

Men's writings on women and women's history during the medieval and renaissance periods.
  1. Aquinas on Women (7)
  2. Medieval and Renaissance
  3. Men About Women

Bernardino of Siena: Two Sermons
Two sermons from 1427 on wives and widows, a late-medieval Roman Catholic perspective.

Knox, John: First Blast of the Trumpet
"Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women." Writing in 1558, Knox grounds male superiority in Scripture and human nature.

Knox: Monstrous Government of Women
A 1993 defense of John Knox' position: women are by nature 'weaker vessels' and not suited to govern men. Also quotes Calvin on women.

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