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.
Subjects:	Women in Christianity > History > 16th century. Reformation. Christian women > Religious life. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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

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