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| | Lanyer, Preface to the Virtuous Reader |
 | | Amelia Lanyer's preface to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews) includes a piece entitled "To the Virtuous Reader." The radical theology and politics that are found in this prefatory writing, and indeed throughout Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum is an example of what could be referred to as proto-feminist. |
| | The poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," after which Lanyer's book gets its name, is a meditation on the Christ's Passion which notably argues in its depiction of Pilate that men, not women were responsible for the crucifixion. |
| | In the preface "To the Virtuous Reader" , one of several prefaces in the book, Lanyer insists on the goodness of virtuoys women, suggesting that Jesus himself was born of a woman, cared for by a woman, and upon his dying moment, was concerned for the care of a woman, his mother Mary. |
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