Women and the Reformation

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stjerna, Kirsi Irmeli, 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prophets, visionaries, and martyrs: Ursula Jost and her publisher Margarethe Prüss
  • The monastic option: the struggle of the convents
  • Marriage and motherhood: the preferred calling
  • Learning and power: an elusive option
  • "Herr Doktor" Katharina von Bora, 1499-1552, the Lutheran matriarch
  • Argula von Grumbach, 1492 to 1563/68?: a Bavarian apologist and pamphleteer
  • Elisabeth von Brandenburg, 1485-1555, and Elisabeth von Braunschweig, 1510-1558: exiled mothers, reforming rulers
  • Katharina Schütz Zell, 1498-1562: a publishing church mother in Strasbourg
  • Marie Dentière, 1495-1561: a Genevan reformer and writer
  • Marguerite de Navarre, 1492-1549, and Jeanne d'Albret, 1528-1572: the protectors of the French reformers
  • Renée de France, 1510-1575: a friend of the Huguenots
  • Olimpia Fulvia Morata, 1526/27-1555: an Italian scholar
  • Conclusions and observations on gender and the Reformation