The instruction of a Christen woman
By: Juan Luis Vives ; coordinating editors, Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Margaret Mikesell ; contributing editors, Sheila Ffolliott and Betty S. Travitsky ; other contributors, Denise Albanese ... [et al.].
Contributors: Beauchamp, Virginia Walcott.; Hageman, Elizabeth.; Mikesell, Margaret Lael.; Ffolliott, Sheila.; Travitsky, Betty, 1942-; Albanese, Denise.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Christian women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.; Christian women -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "This edition of The Instruction of a Christen Woman is the first to provide the modern reader with the complete text of the single most influential book in Tudor England concerning women and how they should live their lives.".

"This old-spelling edition of The Instruction of a Christen Woman includes a substantial introduction that sets the book within its biographical, historical, and generic contexts and establishes its history as a printed text in eight succeeding sixteenth-century editions that reflect the social, religious, and political changes of that age."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.