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History 2P91: Women in the Reformation
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- C. Lindberg, The European Reformations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). read pages 111-134
Reading for Groups
- 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
Secondary
, 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.
Links
- General & Reference Texts
- » Introduction and Seminar Preparation, Assignment Discussions
- » Late Medieval Religion and Reform?
- » Reformation Doctrines: What was the big deal?
- » Spreading the Message to the Common Man: Print, Propaganda and Preaching
- » Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation
- » Geneva and the Growth of Calvinism
- » Catholic or Counter-Reform?
- » Conformity and Non-Conformity in England
- » Women in the Reformation
- » Reformation of the Cities: Nuremberg
- » Religious Violence and Revolt in the 1560s
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