Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France

by Susan Broomhall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134951893X
• ISBN13: 9781349518937
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"