Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403936813)

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.

Author: S. Broomhall
ISBN-10: 1403936811
ISBN-13: 9781403936813
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d