Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England.(Book Review)

From: History Today | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Walsham, Alexandra | Copyright information

Christine Peters

Cambridge University Press xv + 389 pp 45 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-521-58062-5

RECENT STUDIES OF THE REFORMATION have tended to present it as a movement which enhanced the masculine character of religious experience and created an environment in which women felt uncomfortable and alienated. Despite its emphasis on the spiritual equality of the sexes, Protestantism is widely regarded as having simultaneously eroded the female role models provi...

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