
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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A Woman's Life
As a woman, marguerite could not attend the universities or fight in wars. She was encouraged to write about god and salvation by marie d'antiere. But she may have been provoked by john calvin's attack on her spiritual christianity. The leading reformers were never shy about polemic. They got especially bent out of shape when confronted with their own ings.
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