AN ANTHOLOGY -FRANCESC EIXIMENIS-

Eiximenis is on the defensive in his initial support for the education of women, but later states his case mucho more strongly. In the Third book of Lo crestià (1384), ho goes no further than to recommend that husbands should not prevent therir wives from learning to read and write, but in the later books he clearly defends the right of women to literacy and to free themselves from “the darkness of ignorance”.