Adding to the discussion of the field's origins, she begins this section with conceptions of European ideals of women and their roles through the Bible and philosophers such as Augustine. He then discusses the Renaissance phenomenon of the querrelle des femmes when Boccaccio in 1380 reopened discussions about the virile spirits of women in fragile bodies by making them similar to men as the highest compliment in De mulieribus Claris, and its sequel by Christine de Pizan. (20) These laws and many writers involved in this controversy show an early interest in trying to understand women in a society formed around religions based on male privilege, which she believes derive from the dual stories of Creation in the Bible and from clergymen like Tertullian. (15-16) Economically, women's bodies most often occupy domestic labor roles, but, Wiesner argues that their access to capital and consumption offers more interesting and generous historical opportunities.