...offended at The First Blast of the Trumpet, in which I affirm that to promote a woman to bear rule or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, and a thing most contrarious to his revealed and approved ordinance, and because also that some hath...

...offended at the First Blast of the Trumpet, in which I affirm that to promote a woman to bear rule or empire above any realm, nation or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, and a thing most contrarious to His revealed and approved ordinance; and because also that some hath...

...temporisfilia [Truth is the daughter of time] The first blast of the trumpet to awake women degenerate To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion...approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, and all equity and justice. In the probation8 of this proposition, I will not be so curious...

...His First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women begins with the proposition, "To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any nation, realm or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed...

...monster in nature that a woman shall reign and have empire above man. To promote a woman to bear rule, above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, . . . and, finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. When a woman rules,...

...of the English polity: the promotion of a woman 'to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire' was 'repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most...approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice'.3 John Aylmer replied in 1559 but his response, An harborowe...

...Protestant queens, but its basic philosophy of male superiority reflected the accepted wisdom of the day: 'To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion...any realm, nation or city is repugnant to nature.' Elizabeth was extremely fortunate, however, in the upturn that coincided with her accession. The harvest...

...women. In his "First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women," Knox asserted that, "To promote a woman, to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to Nature; is contumely to God." This sort of attitude had a fatal effect on Mary, Queen of Scots. The Reformation,...

...reformer John Knox who, in 1558, had railed against what he called "the Monstrous Regiment of Women." "To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion...any realm, nation or city is repugnant to nature," Knox declared, "contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance,...

...variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment'. Female magistracy was an 'abomination', 'repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will', and 'finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice'." Elizabeth's solution, at...