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18 - Calvin and Women

from Part III - Empire and Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Edited by
R. Ward Holder
R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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Summary

The question of how the transformations of the early modern era changed – or did not change – the lives of women has become a familiar question for historians. Joan Kelly’s pathbreaking “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” challenged scholars to interrogate the impact of watershed moments, like the Renaissance, and to resist assuming that women necessarily benefited from them.1

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John Calvin in Context , pp. 155 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Blaisdell, Charmarie. “Calvin’s Letters to Women: The Courting of Ladies in High Places.” Sixteenth Century Journal 13, no. 3 (Autumn 1982): 67–84.Google Scholar
Davis, Natalie Zemon. “City Women and Religious Change,” in Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. 13.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eurich, Amanda. “Women in the Huguenot Community.” In A Companion to the Huguenots, edited by Mentzer, Raymond A. and Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, 118–149. Leiden: Brill, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Monter, E. William. “Women in Calvinist Geneva,” Signs 6, no. 2 (Winter 1980): 189–209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Potter, Mary. “Gender Equality and Gender Hierarchy in Calvin’s Theology.” Signs 11, no. 4 (Summer 1986): 725–739.Google Scholar
Roelker, Nancy L. “The Role of Noblewomen in the French Reformation.” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History, 63 (1972): 168–95.Google Scholar

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