Women and the Reformation. - Stjerna, Kirsi 1963- (Malden Blackwell, 2009)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Christian women -- Religious life; Reformation; Women in Christianity -- History -- 16th century; 284.1 "15" -- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--?"15"; 284.2 "15" -- Calvinistische hervorming. Zwinglianisme. Hervormden--?"15"