How stressful can be a book based in the obedience and meekness that wives, daughter and women in general have follow. "Comportment books." These books stated rules that women had to follow as part of they routines. The rules laid out are "how to be pious, faithful, silent, and subservient, and household duties." These characteristics is present in the movie "The name of the Rose's" girl. This girl was pious, faithful, silent and subservient with Adso of Melk. The rules laid out in those texts are not impossible to uphold. Those books were absolutely created by men to underestimate women’s capacity. It demonstrated men’s frustration to maintained women under control, because they knew what women were capable of doing. Women have so much potential and control, they definitely can follow those rules and at the same time be able to improve herself and intellectual. I know it might be difficult back then, but just knowing the fact that for the first time a woman dared to sit down to write a conduct book. Christine de Pizan’s work (1364-1430), one, Le Livre des Trois Vertus was written for the daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, this is the first comportment books written by a woman. Women were already getting an intellectual realization, gaining place in the society as writers and at the same time, they obeyed and subservient men. Men were used to write books and all the laws back then. This is a very smart move by women.
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