{"title":"Jehan Baptista Houwaert","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"on-the-excellence-and-nobility-of-women-by-jehan-baptista-houwaert-9781649591401","title":"On the Excellence and Nobility of Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJehan Baptista Houwaert's \u003cem\u003eExcellence and Nobility of Women\u003c\/em\u003e constitutes the eighth book of his\u003cem\u003e Plain of the Nine Muses, or The Pleasure Garden of Virtuous Women\u003c\/em\u003e (1582–1583), an immense conduct book for women in rhymed verse based on the many \u003cem\u003equerelle \u003c\/em\u003etexts of the French and Burgundian tradition but especially, in its French translation, on the pathbreaking \u003cem\u003eDeclamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex\u003c\/em\u003e (1529) by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike its model, Houwaert's work asserts not merely the equality but the superiority of women. It is unique in that it is addressed not to a wealthy noblewoman or princess, as were most such defenses, but more democratically to the \"girls, unmarried women, wives, and widows of Belgica\"—all of them!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071858000108,"sku":"9781649591401","price":109.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8646763482775.jpg?v=1765056972"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jehan-baptista-houwaert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}