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Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, as an Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Collective Biographies

Armel Dubois-Nayt
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By the time Mary Stuart, later to be the queen of Scotland, was born in 1542, many of the humanist treatises advocating some form of education for women, particularly royal women, had been published: from Anne of France’s Enseignements à sa fille (‘Lessons for My Daughter’) (ca. 1505) to Erasmus’s defence of female education in Christiani matrimonii institutio (‘The Institution of Christian Matrimony’) (1526) and Charles de Sainte-Marthe’s In obitum incomparabilis Margaritae (‘Funeral Oration on the Death of the Incomparable Marguerite’) (1509).1 Thomas More, Erasmus, and Juan Luis Vives might have had their disagreements about the most appropriate curriculum for the female sex and particularly about the skills that had to remain a male preserve, yet they all reached the conclusion that education was the safest way to preserve women’s virtue
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Armel Dubois-Nayt. Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, as an Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Collective Biographies. Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe, pp.259-280, 2022, 9789462703308. ⟨10.2307/j.ctv2gmhh99.14⟩. ⟨hal-03265838⟩
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