History 2P91: Women in the Reformation

• C. Lindberg, The European Reformations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).  read pages 111-134

• 1.  John Calvin, On a Matter Concerning a Pious Woman (22 July 1552)
• 2.  John Calvin, On Marriage, Celibacy, Women and Abortion
• 3.  Martin Luther, The Estate of Marriage (1522)
• 4.  Ursula of Munsterberg, Letter to the Dukes of Saxony (1528)
• 5.  Katherine Rem, Letter to Bernhart Rem

Additional Reading Lists

• , Nails In The Wall: Catholic Nuns In Reformation Germany (: , ).
• , Piety And Family In Early Modern Europe: Essays In Honour Of Steven Ozment (: , ).
• Miriam U. Chrisman, 'Women and the Reformation in Strasbourg, 1490-1530,' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 64 (1972): 143-168.
• C. Gittings, 'Urban Funerals in Late Medieval and Reformation England', in , ed. S. Bassett (: , 1992), .
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'The Control of morals in Calvin's Geneva', in The Social History of the Reformation, ed. L. Back and J. W. Zophy (Columbus: , 1972), 3-16.
• K. P. Moxey, Peasants, Warriors and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
• Steven E. Ozment, When Fathers Ruled: Family life in Reformation Europe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983).
• Austra Reinis, Reforming the Art of Dying: The Ars Moriendi in the German Reformation (1519-1528) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
• Lyndal Roper, The Holy Household: Women and morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
• H.-C. Rublack, 'New Patterns of Christian Life', in Handbook of European History 1400-1600, ed. Thomas A. Brady, Heiko A. Oberman and James D. Tracy (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), 585-598.
• Jeffrey Watt, 'Women and the consistory in Calvin's Geneva', in , ed. (: , 1993), 429-439.
• Merry Wiesner, 'Nuns, wives and mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany', in Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe: Public and Private Worlds, ed. Sherrin Marshall (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1989), 8-28.

•  Women in the Reformation (http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/womenrsc.htm)