Book chapter
Masculinity and the Reformed Tradition in France
Masculinity in the Reformation Era, p.120
Pennsylvania State University Press
05/22/2008
DOI: 10.5325/j.ctv1c9hnpq.10
Abstract
The notion that the Reformation contributed to the intensification of masculinity in early modern Europe now seems a commonplace. Scholars working in history and literature have made this point on numerous occasions and for a variety of linguistic and civic cultures. In her discussion of events in sixteenth-century Augsburg, Lyndal Roper argues vigorously that “gender relations…were at the crux of the Reformation.” Within Roper’s interpretative framework, the German Protestant male leaders, both clerical and lay, resolutely advanced “a vision of women’s incorporation within the household under the leadership of their husbands.”¹ Scott Hendrix’s examination of the pamphlet literature that German
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Masculinity and the Reformed Tradition in France
- Creators
- Raymond A. Mentzer - University of Iowa, History
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Masculinity in the Reformation Era, p.120
- DOI
- 10.5325/j.ctv1c9hnpq.10
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/22/2008
- Academic Unit
- History; Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984277631302771
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