Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France

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Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France is written by S. Broomhall and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230501508 (ISBN 10) and 9780230501508 (ISBN 13).

This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensive original and archival sources, it provides a comprehensive study of how women contributed to institutional, theological, devotional and political religious matters. Challenging the view of religious reforms and ideas imposed by male authorities upon women, this study argues instead that women, Catholic and Calvinist, lay and monastic, were deeply involved in the culture, meanings and development of contemporary religious practices.