Women and the Reformation /
Stjerna, Kirsi Irmeli, 1963-
Women and the Reformation / Kirsi Stjerna. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2009. - ix, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-258) and index.
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 bibliography
9781405114226 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405114233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007042450
Women in Christianity--History--16th century.
Reformation.
Christian women--Religious life.
BR 307 / .S75 2009
270.6092/2
Women and the Reformation / Kirsi Stjerna. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2009. - ix, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-258) and index.
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 bibliography
9781405114226 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405114233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007042450
Women in Christianity--History--16th century.
Reformation.
Christian women--Religious life.
BR 307 / .S75 2009
270.6092/2