Prehistoric and Bronze Age Images of Women

Women in ancient Mesopotamia

Women in ancient Egypt

Women of the ancient Hebrews

Women in ancient and medieval India, Hinduism and Buddhism

Women in ancient and medieval China

Women in medieval Japan

Women in ancient Greece

Women in the Roman Empire

Women in Byzantium

Women in early Christianity

Women in the Medieval Islamic World

Women in the Medieval African Kingdoms

Women in Medieval Europe

Was there a Renaissance for Women?

Women in the Protestant Reformation

General Resources

Syllabus

Women in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Main Page

Contact the author

Georgia College & State University

Women in the Reformation

Tudor Women

Life of Women in Tudor England

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Reformed Royalty: The Strength of Queen Jeanne d'Albret by Marilyn B. Manzer

Jeanne d'Albret

Le Poulet Gauche page on the lives of 16th century French women

Catherine de Medici

Idelette de Bur wife of Calvin

My Lord Katie: Katherina von Bora Luther

Excerpt from History of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, on Luther's Home Life

Transgressing Boundaries Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation by Janet Clare

First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women treatise by John Knox. So was there a Reformation for women?

Excerpts from Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina Wilson

Impact of the Reformation on the Women of Germany, by Henry Cohn, University of Warwick. See also his bibliography.

Women of the Reformation chart with links to very limited factual information on each woman

The Protestant Reformation and Women from The Daily Catholic. See the original site here.

Witchcraft documents from the fifteenth century from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts good list of secondary articles available through JSTOR and primary sources on the web. There are some dead links here; most of the primary sources can be found at the Hanover Historical Texts Project site.

 

Above: Bust of Nefertiti from the Berlin Museum

Below: Bust of Cleopatra