ENGLISH 3RL6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Emilia Lanier, Pilates, Epistrophe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3RL6
• Professor: Dr. Mary Silcox

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This is part of their unnatural natural histories. She deepens the relationship with god and christ to women seen as bad with christianity. When vipers are born they eat their way out of their mother"s. It"s a way of describing someone rather than honouring mother, An amazing comparison women are seen as good with christianity, and men are (cid:498)we(cid:499) virtuous, christian, women (cid:498)they(cid:499) not virtuous, not christian, men (cid:498)god himself has given power to certain women to punish men who have sinned(cid:499) Here lanyer is making woman and christ similar they are both (cid:498)martyrs(cid:499) It is not a lock of sin it is the active maintenance of virtue and not sinning. She lists biblical women who have done great things and done better than men. Women are the protectors and embodiment of the christian spirit. The countess of cumberland is whom she chooses. Virgin, goddess of the hunt and goddess of the moon.