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Renaissance Misogyny, Biblical Feminism, and Hélisenne de Crenne's Epistres familieres et invectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jerry C. Nash
Jerry C. Nash*
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University of North Texas
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And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.

— Mark 14:9

Je t'admonneste de … te repentir, d'avoir detracté de celles, pour lesquelles extoller tous vertueulx se travaillent (K ii).

— Crenne

We will begin where all early modern feminists, from Christine de Pizan to Hélisenne de Crenne and beyond, begin: in the beginning was the word, and the word was misogynist. This is the ideological, literary, and cultural context for reading and appreciating virtually every early modern feminist work.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , Summer 1997 , pp. 379 - 410
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1997

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