The Education of a Christian Woman
Subtitle: A Sixteenth-Century Manual (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Contributors: Charles Fantazzi (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780226858159
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Organization & management of education; Women's studies; Social Science; Religion - Church History; Sociology; Europe; Christian Education - General; Christianity - History - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Christian women; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Education
First sentence: 8. In his book on the instruction of the orator, Fabius Quintilian expresses the view it should begin from the cradle, convinced that no time should be wasted that could be dedicated to the attainment of those skills that we have fixed for ourselves as our objective.