Women are not human an anonymous treatise and responses.
It started as a joke, then got out of hand. In 1595 an anonymous Latin treatise parodied Anabaptist theology that nothing is true unless it is explicitly stated in the Bible. A Lutheran theologian had a defense of women published within months; the Roman Catholic Church had banned the treatise by 1651 when an Italian nun added her rejoinder. Kenney (English, U. of Dallas) collects, translates, and annotates the three documents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.