MARCONVILLE, Jean de

by Jean de Marconville

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Rare second edition of this curious work on the pros and cons of marriage, first published in Paris in 1564, concurrently with another work examining the good and evil of Women; both are mentioned in the privilege given to Jean Dallier at the end of this book and were probably complementary. Marconville published many works which presented arguments, for and against, in a tradition derived from Erasmus, and prefiguring Montaigne s Essais. The present work addresses such things as adultery, marriage ceremonies both christian and pagan, degrees of consanguinity, how to punish a wife, jealousy and the unhappiness caused by being married to a Mauvais Femme . Some French Catholics who began cautiously endorsing marriage were Jean Bouchet, Jean de Marconville and Francois de Billon. Jean de Marconville was a Catholic who sought the unity of the Church, but objected to the use of force against the Protestants. He addressed the issue of marriage in his De l'Heur et malheur de mariage , published in 1564. The stated premise was that men and women were meant to be married. He advocated marriage as security .. against the disordered affections of the flesh and against the vices of incontinence and sensuality. Yvonne Petry. Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation. This was taken in part and reworked from a French translation of Mexia s Diverses Lecons by Claude Gruget. Marconville conceals Mexia as a source, juggles the order of Mexia s three linked chapters on marriage and leaves his read

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