Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe : Profiles, Texts, and Contexts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stjerna, Kirsi I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Christianity--History--16th century.

Women in Christianity.

Women in Christianity--History--17th century.

Reformation--Biography.

Reformation.

Women--Religious life--Europe.

Women.

Women--Europe--Biography.

Christian biography.

Women--Religious life.

Europe.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, 2022.

Summary:

This volume provides an expansive view of women negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious scene of the sixteenth-century Reformations. Biographical chapters are accompanied by "in her voice" text samples, images, theme articles, and recommended readings. Features the work of thirty-four international experts in the field.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Images and Credits

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Expanding the Horizons with Women at the Center

I. Women Theologians and the Printed Word

Katharina Schütz Zell (ca. 1498-1562): Passionate Church Mother

Argula von Grumbach (1492-1554/57): A Woman with the Word

Marie Dentière (1495-1561): In Defense of Women

Elisabeth Cruciger (ca. 1500-1535): Lutheran Hymnwriter

Margarethe Prüss (d. 1542): Printer

II. German Women Leading the Reforms

Katharina von Bora (1499-1552): Morning Star of Wittenberg

Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1510-1558) and Elisabeth of Denmark (1485-1555): Lutheran Rulers

Dorothea Susanna of the Palatinate, Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar (1544-1592): Confessor of the Faith

Amalia Elisabeth of Hesse-Cassel (1602-1651): The Iron Princess

III. English Women for the Protestant Faith

Anne Askew (ca. 1521-1546): Author of The Latter Examination (1546, pub. 1547)

Elizabeth Tyrwhit (d. 1578): Protestant Englishwomen and Written Prayer

Jane Grey (1537-1554): A Life of Religious Meaning

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603): Religion and Beliefs

Katherine Parr (1512-1548): Protestant Queen, Author, and Influencer

IV. French and Italian Women for the Protestant Faith

Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549): Theologian and Patron of Evangelicals, in Her Own Words and Actions

Renée of France (1510-1575): Valiant Protector of Religious Dissidents

Jeanne d'Albret (1528-1572): Reformer and Queen

Olimpia Fulvia Morata (1526-1555): Eloquent Magistra

V. Dutch, Swiss, and Anabaptist Women for the Reformations

Susanna (1551-1625) and Cornelia (1554-1576) Teellinck: Early Dutch Reformed Editor and Authors.

Anna Scharnschlager (d. 1564) and Margarethe Endris: Anabaptist Women and Their Letters

Being Reformed: Women in the Zürich Reformation

VI. Protestant Women and Their Bible

Argula von Grumbach and Katharina Schütz Zell as Biblical Interpreters

Sixteenth-Century Protestant Englishwomen as Readers and Writers

VII. Protestant Teachings and Women's Agency

Luther's Theological Anthropology and View of Women's Roles

Marriage in Protestant Europe

Working Women in Poor Relief: Midwives, Nurses, and Deaconesses

Reading Textiles as Text: Katharina von Bora's Self-Representation through Dress

VIII. Women Negotiating the Reformations in Different Contexts and Spaces

Thistles and Thorns: Women Resist the Reformation

Anna Jacobäa Fuggerin (1547-1587) and St. Katharina Convent in Augsburg: The End of an Experiment in Simultaneity

Katarina Jagiellon (1526-1583): A Queen Negotiating the Reformation in the North

The Italian Way: Women, Religion, and Society during the Age of the Reformation

Anna Vasa (1568-1625): Lutheran Sister of the Catholic King

"Without Women and Children," No Reformation in France

Index of Names

Index of Scripture.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Stjerna, Kirsi I. Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe

ISBN:

9781506468723

OCLC:

1338298363