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Women and the Reformation / Kirsi Stjerna.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stjerna, Kirsi Irmeli, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Christianity--History--16th century.
- Women in Christianity.
- Reformation.
- Christian women--Religious life.
- Christian women.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2009.
- Summary:
- Women were critical participants in Christian life during the Reformations. Women and the Reformation gathers historical materials and personal accounts to provide a comprehensive and accessible look at the status and contributions of women as leaders in the sixteenth-century Protestant world.
- Examining individual stories from women of the times, this volume includes biographical sketches from figures as diverse as the ex-nun Katharina von Bora Luther, Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, the prophetess Ursula Jost, and the learned Olimpia Fulvia Morata. The first book of its kind, this groundbreaking text brings together social history and theology to provide an original assessment of the theological effects these women had in Christian life and spirituality.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405114226
- 1405114223
- 9781405114233
- 1405114231
- OCLC:
- 175289927
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- Publisher description
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