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The status of Women in the Protestant Reformation was deeply influenced by Bible study, as the Reformation promoted literacy and Bible study in order to study God's will in what a society should look like. This influenced women's lives in both positive and negative ways, depending on what scripture and passages of the Bible were studied and ...
Katharina Schütz Zell (1497/98 – 5 September 1562) was a Protestant reformer and writer during the Protestant Reformation. [1] She was one of the first Protestant women to marry a clergyman. [2] Katharina lived all of her life in Strasbourg. [2]
Katharina von Bora (German: [kataˈʁiːnaː fɔn ˈboːʁaː]; 29 January 1499? – 20 December 1552), after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin" ('the Lutheress'), [1] was the wife of the German reformer Martin Luther and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
Jeanne argued that “women were truer Catholics than men,” fighting for their chastity against heretics such as Marie Dentière, who would attempt to persuade the nuns to marry. [6] The perspective provided in the chronicle provided evidence that “women played a more active role” in the Reformation than previously assumed. [ 7 ]
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of History. [1] She describes herself as wearing "... two hats, one as a historian of early modern Europe and the other as a world/global historian, with a primary focus on women, gender, and sexuality ...
Several women played leading roles in the early days of the Baháʼí Faith in America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Among them are: May Maxwell , Corinne True , and Martha Root . Rúhíyyih Khanum and a mix of male and female Hands of the Cause formed an interim leadership of the religion for six years prior to the formation of the Universal House of ...
Argula von Grumbach was born as Argula von Stauff near Regensburg, Bavaria, in 1492.Her family lived in Ehrenfels castle, which was their baronial seat. The von Stauff family were Freiherren, who were lords with independent jurisdiction only accountable to the Emperor, and they were among the pre-eminent leaders of Bavarian nobility.
Jacques Callot, Dolphins and Crocodile, etching c. 1615. In Amicitia, numerous tall and folk stories (from Pliny) [7] concerning the peculiar loves and hates of various animals and natural objects are the MacGuffin for a vocabulary-building exercise: how Italian green snakes love human spittle (and may crawl into your mouth when sleeping, to prevent which you can employ a guard lizard!) but ...