Conduct Literature for Women Part I 1540-1640 vol 2

This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century. Heinrich Bullinger, The christen state of matrimonye (1541), and Thomas Becon, 'Preface to The golden boke of christen matrimonye' (1543), Thomas Elyot, The defence of good women (1545), Thomas Becon, extract from Catechisme (1564), Extracts from Homilies (1683)