La perfecta casada

by Luis de León

Madrid. 18 cm. 214 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Colección austral', numero coleccion(275). León, Luis de 1527-1591. Edición, Javier San José Lera. Bibliografí p. [57]-62. Colección austral (1987) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8423972755

Genres: Spanish Literature

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

A mother bore Luis Ponce de León in 1527.

Luis de León joined Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini (eremitic order of Saint Augustine) as an Augustinian friar (fray in Spanish). This Spanish lyric poet, theologian, and academic acted during the golden age.

Luis de León together with Francisco de Aldana, Alonso de Ercilla, Fernando de Herrera and Saint John of the Cross ranked as the most important poets of the second phase of the Renaissance in Spain. The desire of the soul to get away from everything earthly to achieve promises, identified with peace and knowledge, of God inspired his work, part of the ascetic literature of the second half of the 16th century. Moral and ascetic themes dominate all his work.

In addition, Gregory XIII oversaw consultation of Luis de León and the other experts to change the Julian calendar, used from the time of Julius Caesar in the west, to the current Gregorian calendar.

Reviews

[Emma]

Abandonamos al 50% porque era leer algo y olvidarlo y una ✨ New Year Resolution ✨ es no leer cosas de las cuales no nos vamos a acordar en 20 mins (excepto libros religiosos y must-reads).
Was not super misógino which was a surprise.

[Martino · Rating 1 out of 5]

La perfecta casada es un libro de la época del Renacimiento donde la principal característica de su literatura es usar la figura de la mujer como algo divino y hermoso pero en este caso, el libro nos contará con ciertas reglas para ser una buena esposa y servir al hombre. La critica será netamente amoral, dejando de lado la ética que por supuesto es muy machista siendo normal en su tiempo.
Empezaré con que solo dejé un estrella debido a que los títulos de cada capítulo mostraba algo "divertido" y su explicación religiosa de porqué se debe actuar de esa manera, como por ejemplo, las mujeres no debían maquillarse porque era del diablo y arruinaba lo que Dios creó. Lo ridiculo me divertía y solo eso me gustó. Por el contrario tengo muchas criticas ya que, el lenguaje usado en el libro se llama Romance castellano y la gramática, vocabulario (que ya ni se usa actualmente) y las exageradas figuras poéticas hacían mi lectura tediosa y un poco desesperante.
Me aburrió un montón el que me explicarán los proverbios religiosos porque todo estaba basado en las reglas de Salomón y otros "santos". Me lei el libro a la fuerza solo para conocer el final y tener conocimiento sobre aquel libro escandaloso.
Recomendaría este libro a personas con paciencia y tolerancia porque llegaba momentos que no comprendía lo que quería decir en algunos párrafos el escritor y volvía leerlo 3 veces hasta que se forma la idea en la cabeza de algo tan abstracto que es la religión.

[Sam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book, based on Proverbs 31, is Fray Luis's idea of how women should act. Although it seems quite archaic these days, this book was spread throughout the Spanish empire for quite a long time. He advises women to be submissive, quiet, unadorned, not gossipy, supportive, hardworking in the home, and things like that. It wasn't really my cup of tea.

[Jackie · Rating 4 out of 5]

fascinating use of sense and hypocrisy

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

A celibate priest writes a handbook explaining how women should act to be “the perfect wife.” Everything from beauty (the less make-up the better) to household chores (attend to your husband’s needs, but don’t pester him), piety (show your love for God by being a good wife – don’t be quarrelsome or lazy), and economics (don’t desire fancy clothes and jewelry, nor spend your husband’s hard-earned money on wasteful personal items). While it seems absurd today, I tried very hard to put myself into the frame of mind of a sixteenth-century Spanish Catholic woman who was honestly trying to be a pious, loving wife with little education and no opportunities to be anything BUT a housewife, and … well, it was still pretty absurd, since such a woman would not have the education to read this!

So was it really just for men to instruct their wives? Not really. The introduction tells us it was written for Fray Luis’s recently married cousin but was mostly an academic exercise in Biblical interpretation with the domestic space as its topic. It ended up becoming a “best seller” (in the words of the scholarly introduction), but I would assume the only people reading it at the time (besides priests, monks, and nuns – all of whom weren’t married!) would be educated aristocrats and the merchant class, most likely men.

I discovered this book when reading another academic text on gender and marriage in the sixteenth century, so I take it as a curiosity that shows us the Catholic ideal of the married woman in the early modern era, which still has strong echoes today in the current Western Christian patriarchal “male as the head of household” model.

[Catherine]

Women shouldn't laugh because good teeth are hot. Haha...unless?

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Diria que almenys m’ha fet gracia, però la veritat és que és avorrit en avaricia

[Gregorio Redondo]

literatura / literatura clásica / teatro clasicos españoles hasta el siglo XVIII / colmenar estudio estantería derecha 5ª balda

[augusto · Rating 3 out of 5]

lo misógino e hipócrita que es kabsjsj es tan hdp que me encanta

[Nerea · Rating 2 out of 5]

lo imaginaba más pesado de leer