RT Review
T1 Women and the Reformation. By Kirsi Stjerna
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 61
IS 1
SP 407
OP 409
A1 Hampton, Cathy
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783726814
AB Kirsi Stjerna’s survey of prominent Reformation women has emerged in response to the demands of her classroom: a ‘North American seminary’ in which she teaches as ‘A European Lutheran clergywoman’ (p. 4). In that setting, keen to ‘complement’ and ‘challenge’ her students’ male-centred appreciation of the origins of Protestantism with early-modern female-authored texts and female-centred biographical accounts brought forth by feminist scholarship over the last 25 years (and continuing to emerge in such series as The Other Voice in European Literature), Stjerna sought to gather under one roof a ‘portable introduction in English’ (p.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flp133