The+Transformation+of+the+West

media type="custom" key="7979398" Summary : During the Reformations, humanists such as Juan Luis Vives provided a new way of thinking and somewhat changed how life was. Vives wrote many books on women including one that was is somewhat of a guidebook on husband’s responsibility over women. Vives somewhat puts large emphasis on how it is the husbands/men’s role to educating women. He backs this emphasis up with claimed experience that evil women he has met were usually unlearned. Education is mentioned throughout the document while connecting to Christ by saying that he teaches his children. Vives also put emphasis on the control of women by men. Other than educating women, husbands should also control their wives while being controlled by public and common laws. Men have a large responsibility on controlling or teaching their wives’ ability and duties. It is the husband’s duty to teach his wife at home if there were any questions. Also wives should look up to their husbands as if their will is the will of God. This document suggests that husband and wife relationships are tied in with Christianity, due to wives having to listen to the will of their husbands. Knowledge also ties in with how if men were left in their original nature, they would just be corrupted with sin and that this was fixed through teachings. Since men became less “evil” due to teachings, Vives believed that this could be applied to women too.