Hélisenne de Crenne | Jerry C. Nash (essay date summer 1997)
Jerry C. Nash (essay date summer 1997)
SOURCE: Nash, Jerry C. “Renaissance Misogyny, Biblical Feminism, and Hélisenne de Crenne's Epistres familieres et invectives.” Renaissance Quarterly 50, no. 2 (summer 1997): 379-410.
[In the following essay, Nash discusses de Crenne's use of the Bible as a source of arguments and anecdotes to refute misogynist views, reject male arguments about female inferiority, and portray women as moral exemplars.]
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 14:91
Je t'admonneste de … te repentir, d'avoir detracté de celles, pour lesquelles extoller tous vertueulx se travaillent (K ii).
—Crenne2
We will begin where all early modern feminists, from Christine de Pizan to Hélisenne de...
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