De officio mariti : : introduction, critical edition, translation and notes / / edited by C. Fantazzi.

• Superior document: Selected works of J.L. Vives, v. 8
• Author: Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fantazzi, Charles.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540. Selections. 1987 ; v. 8.; Selected Works of Juan Luis Vives ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This treatise is a sequel to Vives' On the Education of the Christian Woman , published in Brill's series, Selected Works of J.L. Vives. It studies the institution of marriage from a male vantage point, with interesting observations on female psychology, anticipating his later work, De anima. Vives insists more here on the weakness and instability of the woman than in the previous treatise, relying on the biological tenets of Aristotle and Galen. Much attention is given to the choice of a wife and to the husband's role as tutor of his spouse and disciplinarian. The marriage debt is regarded as a necessary evil, as in St. Paul, while the spirituality of the union is exalted. The book was often printed together with the De institutione feminae Christianae and even considered as a fourth book of that work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Prefatory Remarks -- II. Brief Synthesis and Comparison with De institutione feminae Christianae -- III. Revisions in the 1538 Edition -- IV. Editions and Constitution of the Text -- V. Translations -- VI. Abbreviations Used in the Introduction and Notes -- Sigla -- DE OFFICIO MARITI -- Praefatio -- Cap. I. De coniugii origine et utilitate -- Cap. II. De eligenda uxore -- Cap. III. De accessu ad coniugium -- Cap. IV. De disciplina feminae -- Cap. V. De domo -- Cap. VI. De externis -- Cap. VII. De cultu -- Cap. VIII. De absentia mariti -- Cap. IX. De reprehensione et castigatione -- Cap. X. De progressu in coniugio -- Cap. XI. Quas utilitates affert amor conjugum mutuus -- Cap. XII. De iis quae non habet liberos -- Cap. XIII. De uxore natu grandiore -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.