Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France

Broomhall, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403936813

DOI: 10.1057/9780230501508

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 208